Possible Showstopper

[Joe Buck]

>   In message < 199712022253.OAA06067@supernova.earthlink.net >you write:
>   > 
>   > The new 971201 snapshot did not fix the problem I am having on my
>   > RedHat 5.0 system (i686-pc-linux-gnu).  In particular, make check
>   > fails horribly for many C++ tests, like this:
> With RedHat only being out for 2 days I think the way to go is to make a minor
> release in a week or so to fix this specific problem.
> 
>   > At the very least, something needs to go in the release notes about
>   > this.
> Agreed.

Will it work around the problem if users add -lpthread to their link
line?

(Yes, it sucks that we got burned by 5.0, but we did want to support
popular Linux distributions).