I apologize in advance if this is a very basic question. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the peculiarities of Solaris ....

I'm trying to compile iftop0.15 on a box running Solaris 9 (SPARC). When trying to configure, I get an error about being unable to figure out how to compile with POSIX threads:

./configure --with-libcap=/usr/local

checking for a curses library containing mvchgat... -lncurses checking how to compile a working program with POSIX threads... -lpcap -lnsl -lm -lsocket -lncurses no idea configure: error: can't figure out how to compile with POSIX threads If your system actually supports POSIX threads, this means we've messed up.

I believe the libraries in question (libpthreatd, etc.) are in /usr/local/lib, which is where the ncurses libraries are (which it seems to have no problem finding). I have tried setting LDFLAGS to "-L/usr/lib -R/usr/lib", but that doesn't seem to help any. I'm trying to avoid the use of LD_LIBRARY_PATH since there have been problems in the past with getting scripts, etc. to work cleanly.

Since I don't have much experience with trying to compile something using POSIX threads, is there something else I need to be feeding to the configure script?

- C.