configure.ac: Check if the current compiler supports the transactions

Some distributions appear to have compilers that are built without support
for transactions, even though they are GCC 4.7 or newer.

Upstream-Status: Submitted [RPM5 maintainer]

Signed-off-by: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>

Index: rpm-5.4.15/configure.ac
===================================================================
--- rpm-5.4.15.orig/configure.ac
+++ rpm-5.4.15/configure.ac
@@ -425,9 +425,34 @@ dnl # --- other optimizations
   rpm_CFLAGS_ADD([-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector], [RPM_CFLAGS])
 dnl #  rpm_CFLAGS_ADD([-fstack-protector-all],[RPM_CFLAGS])
 
-     if test \( ".`$CC --version 2>&1 | grep 'GCC'`" != . \); then
-         rpm_CFLAGS_ADD([-fgnu-tm], [RPM_CFLAGS])
-     fi
+dnl # Check if the current gcc supports -fgnu-tm and __transaction_atomic
+AC_MSG_CHECKING([If the compiler supports __transaction_atomic])
+save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
+save_LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS"
+CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fgnu-tm -litm"
+LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -litm"
+AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([[
+int
+main()
+{
+#if !__clang__ &&  ((__GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 7) || (__GNUC__ > 4)) /* XXX gud enuf? */
+        int i = 0;
+        __transaction_atomic { i++; }
+#else
+# error Compiler does not support __transaction_atomic
+#endif
+        return 0;
+}
+]])], [
+        AC_DEFINE([HAVE_GNUC_TM_ATOMIC], [1],
+                [Define to 1 if the compiler supports __transaction_atomic.])
+        AC_MSG_RESULT([yes])
+], [
+	CFLAGS="$save_CFLAGS"
+	LDFLAGS="$save_LDFLAGS"
+	AC_MSG_RESULT([no])
+])
+
 
 dnl # --- options below are added to RPM_CFLAGS but _NOT_ added to CFLAGS
             CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS $RPM_CPPFLAGS"
Index: rpm-5.4.15/rpmio/rpmutil.h
===================================================================
--- rpm-5.4.15.orig/rpmio/rpmutil.h
+++ rpm-5.4.15/rpmio/rpmutil.h
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
 #  define RPM_GNUC_INTERNAL
 #endif
 
-#if !__clang__ &&  __GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 7	/* XXX gud enuf? */
+#ifdef HAVE_GNUC_TM_ATOMIC
 #  define RPM_GNUC_TM_SAFE	__attribute__((transaction_safe))
 #  define RPM_GNUC_TM_PURE	__attribute__((transaction_pure))
 #  define RPM_GNUC_TM_CALLABLE	__attribute__((transaction_callable))