On ons, 2009-12-30 at 12:55 -0500, Greg Smith wrote:
> Basically, configure failed on their OpenBSD system because thread
> safety is on but the libxml2 wasn't compiled with threaded support:
> http://xmlsoft.org/threads.html
>
> Disabling either feature (no --with-libxml or --disable-thread-safety)
> gives a working build.
This could perhaps be fixed by excluding libxml when running the thread
test. The thread result is only used in the client libraries and libxml
is only used in the backend, so those two shouldn't meet each other in
practice.