diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 3794946..0774312 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,15 @@
 2019-10-19  Tom Tromey  <tom@tromey.com>
 
+	* acinclude.m4: Include ax_pthread.m4.
+	* Makefile.in (PTHREAD_CFLAGS, PTHREAD_LIBS): New variables.
+	(INTERNAL_CFLAGS_BASE): Use PTHREAD_CFLAGS.
+	(CLIBS): Use PTHREAD_LIBS.
+	(aclocal_m4_deps): Add ax_pthread.m4.
+	* config.in, configure: Rebuild.
+	* gdbsupport/common.m4 (GDB_AC_COMMON): Check for std::thread.
+
+2019-10-19  Tom Tromey  <tom@tromey.com>
+
 	* symtab.h (struct minimal_symbol) <name_set>: New member.
 	* minsyms.c (minimal_symbol_reader::record_full): Copy name.
 	Don't call symbol_set_names.
diff --git a/gdb/Makefile.in b/gdb/Makefile.in
index 9d07ac0..5a409d2 100644
--- a/gdb/Makefile.in
+++ b/gdb/Makefile.in
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@
 GDB_WARN_CFLAGS = $(WARN_CFLAGS)
 GDB_WERROR_CFLAGS = $(WERROR_CFLAGS)
 
+PTHREAD_CFLAGS = @PTHREAD_CFLAGS@
+PTHREAD_LIBS = @PTHREAD_LIBS@
+
 RDYNAMIC = @RDYNAMIC@
 
 # Where is the INTL library?  Typically in ../intl.
@@ -572,7 +575,7 @@
 	$(GDB_CFLAGS) $(OPCODES_CFLAGS) $(READLINE_CFLAGS) $(ZLIBINC) \
 	$(BFD_CFLAGS) $(INCLUDE_CFLAGS) $(LIBDECNUMBER_CFLAGS) \
 	$(INTL_CFLAGS) $(INCGNU) $(ENABLE_CFLAGS) $(INTERNAL_CPPFLAGS) \
-	$(SRCHIGH_CFLAGS)
+	$(SRCHIGH_CFLAGS) $(PTHREAD_CFLAGS)
 INTERNAL_WARN_CFLAGS = $(INTERNAL_CFLAGS_BASE) $(GDB_WARN_CFLAGS)
 INTERNAL_CFLAGS = $(INTERNAL_WARN_CFLAGS) $(GDB_WERROR_CFLAGS)
 
@@ -586,7 +589,7 @@
 # PROFILE_CFLAGS is _not_ included, however, because we use monstartup.
 INTERNAL_LDFLAGS = \
 	$(CXXFLAGS) $(GLOBAL_CFLAGS) $(MH_LDFLAGS) \
-	$(LDFLAGS) $(CONFIG_LDFLAGS)
+	$(LDFLAGS) $(CONFIG_LDFLAGS) $(PTHREAD_CFLAGS)
 
 # Libraries and corresponding dependencies for compiling gdb.
 # XM_CLIBS, defined in *config files, have host-dependent libs.
@@ -597,7 +600,7 @@
 	@LIBS@ @GUILE_LIBS@ @PYTHON_LIBS@ \
 	$(LIBEXPAT) $(LIBLZMA) $(LIBBABELTRACE) $(LIBIPT) \
 	$(LIBIBERTY) $(WIN32LIBS) $(LIBGNU) $(LIBICONV) $(LIBMPFR) \
-	$(SRCHIGH_LIBS)
+	$(SRCHIGH_LIBS) $(PTHREAD_LIBS)
 CDEPS = $(NAT_CDEPS) $(SIM) $(BFD) $(READLINE_DEPS) $(LIBCTF) \
 	$(OPCODES) $(INTL_DEPS) $(LIBIBERTY) $(CONFIG_DEPS) $(LIBGNU)
 
@@ -2047,7 +2050,8 @@
 	../config/depstand.m4 \
 	../config/lcmessage.m4 \
 	../config/codeset.m4 \
-	../config/zlib.m4
+	../config/zlib.m4 \
+	../config/ax_pthread.m4
 
 $(srcdir)/aclocal.m4: @MAINTAINER_MODE_TRUE@ $(aclocal_m4_deps)
 	cd $(srcdir) && $(ACLOCAL) $(ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS)
diff --git a/gdb/acinclude.m4 b/gdb/acinclude.m4
index 5f1358b..8592b6c 100644
--- a/gdb/acinclude.m4
+++ b/gdb/acinclude.m4
@@ -73,6 +73,8 @@
 
 m4_include(ax_cxx_compile_stdcxx.m4)
 
+m4_include([../config/ax_pthread.m4])
+
 ## ----------------------------------------- ##
 ## ANSIfy the C compiler whenever possible.  ##
 ## From Franc,ois Pinard                     ##
diff --git a/gdb/config.in b/gdb/config.in
index 26ca02f..9b094fd 100644
--- a/gdb/config.in
+++ b/gdb/config.in
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@
    */
 #undef CRAY_STACKSEG_END
 
+/* Define to 1 if std::thread works. */
+#undef CXX_STD_THREAD
+
 /* Define to 1 if using `alloca.c'. */
 #undef C_ALLOCA
 
@@ -339,6 +342,9 @@
 /* Define if <sys/procfs.h> has psaddr_t. */
 #undef HAVE_PSADDR_T
 
+/* Have PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT. */
+#undef HAVE_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT
+
 /* Define to 1 if you have the `ptrace64' function. */
 #undef HAVE_PTRACE64
 
@@ -625,6 +631,10 @@
 /* Define to 1 if the "%ll" format works to print long longs. */
 #undef PRINTF_HAS_LONG_LONG
 
+/* Define to necessary symbol if this constant uses a non-standard name on
+   your system. */
+#undef PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE
+
 /* Define to the type of arg 1 for ptrace. */
 #undef PTRACE_TYPE_ARG1
 
diff --git a/gdb/configure b/gdb/configure
index 36460b8..66cd0b8 100755
--- a/gdb/configure
+++ b/gdb/configure
@@ -697,6 +697,11 @@
 TARGET_SYSTEM_ROOT
 CONFIG_LDFLAGS
 RDYNAMIC
+PTHREAD_CFLAGS
+PTHREAD_LIBS
+PTHREAD_CC
+ax_pthread_config
+SED
 ALLOCA
 LTLIBIPT
 LIBIPT
@@ -13180,6 +13185,75 @@
 
 fi
 
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for a sed that does not truncate output" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking for a sed that does not truncate output... " >&6; }
+if ${ac_cv_path_SED+:} false; then :
+  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
+else
+            ac_script=s/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb/
+     for ac_i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do
+       ac_script="$ac_script$as_nl$ac_script"
+     done
+     echo "$ac_script" 2>/dev/null | sed 99q >conftest.sed
+     { ac_script=; unset ac_script;}
+     if test -z "$SED"; then
+  ac_path_SED_found=false
+  # Loop through the user's path and test for each of PROGNAME-LIST
+  as_save_IFS=$IFS; IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR
+for as_dir in $PATH
+do
+  IFS=$as_save_IFS
+  test -z "$as_dir" && as_dir=.
+    for ac_prog in sed gsed; do
+    for ac_exec_ext in '' $ac_executable_extensions; do
+      ac_path_SED="$as_dir/$ac_prog$ac_exec_ext"
+      as_fn_executable_p "$ac_path_SED" || continue
+# Check for GNU ac_path_SED and select it if it is found.
+  # Check for GNU $ac_path_SED
+case `"$ac_path_SED" --version 2>&1` in
+*GNU*)
+  ac_cv_path_SED="$ac_path_SED" ac_path_SED_found=:;;
+*)
+  ac_count=0
+  $as_echo_n 0123456789 >"conftest.in"
+  while :
+  do
+    cat "conftest.in" "conftest.in" >"conftest.tmp"
+    mv "conftest.tmp" "conftest.in"
+    cp "conftest.in" "conftest.nl"
+    $as_echo '' >> "conftest.nl"
+    "$ac_path_SED" -f conftest.sed < "conftest.nl" >"conftest.out" 2>/dev/null || break
+    diff "conftest.out" "conftest.nl" >/dev/null 2>&1 || break
+    as_fn_arith $ac_count + 1 && ac_count=$as_val
+    if test $ac_count -gt ${ac_path_SED_max-0}; then
+      # Best one so far, save it but keep looking for a better one
+      ac_cv_path_SED="$ac_path_SED"
+      ac_path_SED_max=$ac_count
+    fi
+    # 10*(2^10) chars as input seems more than enough
+    test $ac_count -gt 10 && break
+  done
+  rm -f conftest.in conftest.tmp conftest.nl conftest.out;;
+esac
+
+      $ac_path_SED_found && break 3
+    done
+  done
+  done
+IFS=$as_save_IFS
+  if test -z "$ac_cv_path_SED"; then
+    as_fn_error $? "no acceptable sed could be found in \$PATH" "$LINENO" 5
+  fi
+else
+  ac_cv_path_SED=$SED
+fi
+
+fi
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ac_cv_path_SED" >&5
+$as_echo "$ac_cv_path_SED" >&6; }
+ SED="$ac_cv_path_SED"
+  rm -f conftest.sed
+
 
   { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for ANSI C header files" >&5
 $as_echo_n "checking for ANSI C header files... " >&6; }
@@ -13565,6 +13639,699 @@
 _ACEOF
 
 
+  # Check for std::thread.  This does not work on some platforms, like
+  # mingw and DJGPP.
+  ac_ext=cpp
+ac_cpp='$CXXCPP $CPPFLAGS'
+ac_compile='$CXX -c $CXXFLAGS $CPPFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext >&5'
+ac_link='$CXX -o conftest$ac_exeext $CXXFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext $LIBS >&5'
+ac_compiler_gnu=$ac_cv_cxx_compiler_gnu
+
+
+
+
+
+ac_ext=c
+ac_cpp='$CPP $CPPFLAGS'
+ac_compile='$CC -c $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext >&5'
+ac_link='$CC -o conftest$ac_exeext $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext $LIBS >&5'
+ac_compiler_gnu=$ac_cv_c_compiler_gnu
+
+ax_pthread_ok=no
+
+# We used to check for pthread.h first, but this fails if pthread.h
+# requires special compiler flags (e.g. on Tru64 or Sequent).
+# It gets checked for in the link test anyway.
+
+# First of all, check if the user has set any of the PTHREAD_LIBS,
+# etcetera environment variables, and if threads linking works using
+# them:
+if test "x$PTHREAD_CFLAGS$PTHREAD_LIBS" != "x"; then
+        ax_pthread_save_CC="$CC"
+        ax_pthread_save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
+        ax_pthread_save_LIBS="$LIBS"
+        if test "x$PTHREAD_CC" != "x"; then :
+  CC="$PTHREAD_CC"
+fi
+        CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS"
+        LIBS="$PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS"
+        { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for pthread_join using $CC $PTHREAD_CFLAGS $PTHREAD_LIBS" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking for pthread_join using $CC $PTHREAD_CFLAGS $PTHREAD_LIBS... " >&6; }
+        cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
+/* end confdefs.h.  */
+
+/* Override any GCC internal prototype to avoid an error.
+   Use char because int might match the return type of a GCC
+   builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply.  */
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C"
+#endif
+char pthread_join ();
+int
+main ()
+{
+return pthread_join ();
+  ;
+  return 0;
+}
+_ACEOF
+if ac_fn_c_try_link "$LINENO"; then :
+  ax_pthread_ok=yes
+fi
+rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
+    conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
+        { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ax_pthread_ok" >&5
+$as_echo "$ax_pthread_ok" >&6; }
+        if test "x$ax_pthread_ok" = "xno"; then
+                PTHREAD_LIBS=""
+                PTHREAD_CFLAGS=""
+        fi
+        CC="$ax_pthread_save_CC"
+        CFLAGS="$ax_pthread_save_CFLAGS"
+        LIBS="$ax_pthread_save_LIBS"
+fi
+
+# We must check for the threads library under a number of different
+# names; the ordering is very important because some systems
+# (e.g. DEC) have both -lpthread and -lpthreads, where one of the
+# libraries is broken (non-POSIX).
+
+# Create a list of thread flags to try.  Items starting with a "-" are
+# C compiler flags, and other items are library names, except for "none"
+# which indicates that we try without any flags at all, and "pthread-config"
+# which is a program returning the flags for the Pth emulation library.
+
+ax_pthread_flags="pthreads none -Kthread -pthread -pthreads -mthreads pthread --thread-safe -mt pthread-config"
+
+# The ordering *is* (sometimes) important.  Some notes on the
+# individual items follow:
+
+# pthreads: AIX (must check this before -lpthread)
+# none: in case threads are in libc; should be tried before -Kthread and
+#       other compiler flags to prevent continual compiler warnings
+# -Kthread: Sequent (threads in libc, but -Kthread needed for pthread.h)
+# -pthread: Linux/gcc (kernel threads), BSD/gcc (userland threads), Tru64
+#           (Note: HP C rejects this with "bad form for `-t' option")
+# -pthreads: Solaris/gcc (Note: HP C also rejects)
+# -mt: Sun Workshop C (may only link SunOS threads [-lthread], but it
+#      doesn't hurt to check since this sometimes defines pthreads and
+#      -D_REENTRANT too), HP C (must be checked before -lpthread, which
+#      is present but should not be used directly; and before -mthreads,
+#      because the compiler interprets this as "-mt" + "-hreads")
+# -mthreads: Mingw32/gcc, Lynx/gcc
+# pthread: Linux, etcetera
+# --thread-safe: KAI C++
+# pthread-config: use pthread-config program (for GNU Pth library)
+
+case $host_os in
+
+        freebsd*)
+
+        # -kthread: FreeBSD kernel threads (preferred to -pthread since SMP-able)
+        # lthread: LinuxThreads port on FreeBSD (also preferred to -pthread)
+
+        ax_pthread_flags="-kthread lthread $ax_pthread_flags"
+        ;;
+
+        hpux*)
+
+        # From the cc(1) man page: "[-mt] Sets various -D flags to enable
+        # multi-threading and also sets -lpthread."
+
+        ax_pthread_flags="-mt -pthread pthread $ax_pthread_flags"
+        ;;
+
+        openedition*)
+
+        # IBM z/OS requires a feature-test macro to be defined in order to
+        # enable POSIX threads at all, so give the user a hint if this is
+        # not set. (We don't define these ourselves, as they can affect
+        # other portions of the system API in unpredictable ways.)
+
+        cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
+/* end confdefs.h.  */
+
+#            if !defined(_OPEN_THREADS) && !defined(_UNIX03_THREADS)
+             AX_PTHREAD_ZOS_MISSING
+#            endif
+
+_ACEOF
+if (eval "$ac_cpp conftest.$ac_ext") 2>&5 |
+  $EGREP "AX_PTHREAD_ZOS_MISSING" >/dev/null 2>&1; then :
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: WARNING: IBM z/OS requires -D_OPEN_THREADS or -D_UNIX03_THREADS to enable pthreads support." >&5
+$as_echo "$as_me: WARNING: IBM z/OS requires -D_OPEN_THREADS or -D_UNIX03_THREADS to enable pthreads support." >&2;}
+fi
+rm -f conftest*
+
+        ;;
+
+        solaris*)
+
+        # On Solaris (at least, for some versions), libc contains stubbed
+        # (non-functional) versions of the pthreads routines, so link-based
+        # tests will erroneously succeed. (N.B.: The stubs are missing
+        # pthread_cleanup_push, or rather a function called by this macro,
+        # so we could check for that, but who knows whether they'll stub
+        # that too in a future libc.)  So we'll check first for the
+        # standard Solaris way of linking pthreads (-mt -lpthread).
+
+        ax_pthread_flags="-mt,pthread pthread $ax_pthread_flags"
+        ;;
+esac
+
+# GCC generally uses -pthread, or -pthreads on some platforms (e.g. SPARC)
+
+if test "x$GCC" = "xyes"; then :
+  ax_pthread_flags="-pthread -pthreads $ax_pthread_flags"
+fi
+
+# The presence of a feature test macro requesting re-entrant function
+# definitions is, on some systems, a strong hint that pthreads support is
+# correctly enabled
+
+case $host_os in
+        darwin* | hpux* | linux* | osf* | solaris*)
+        ax_pthread_check_macro="_REENTRANT"
+        ;;
+
+        aix*)
+        ax_pthread_check_macro="_THREAD_SAFE"
+        ;;
+
+        *)
+        ax_pthread_check_macro="--"
+        ;;
+esac
+if test "x$ax_pthread_check_macro" = "x--"; then :
+  ax_pthread_check_cond=0
+else
+  ax_pthread_check_cond="!defined($ax_pthread_check_macro)"
+fi
+
+# Are we compiling with Clang?
+
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether $CC is Clang" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking whether $CC is Clang... " >&6; }
+if ${ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG+:} false; then :
+  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
+else
+  ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG=no
+     # Note that Autoconf sets GCC=yes for Clang as well as GCC
+     if test "x$GCC" = "xyes"; then
+        cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
+/* end confdefs.h.  */
+/* Note: Clang 2.7 lacks __clang_[a-z]+__ */
+#            if defined(__clang__) && defined(__llvm__)
+             AX_PTHREAD_CC_IS_CLANG
+#            endif
+
+_ACEOF
+if (eval "$ac_cpp conftest.$ac_ext") 2>&5 |
+  $EGREP "AX_PTHREAD_CC_IS_CLANG" >/dev/null 2>&1; then :
+  ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG=yes
+fi
+rm -f conftest*
+
+     fi
+
+fi
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG" >&5
+$as_echo "$ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG" >&6; }
+ax_pthread_clang="$ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG"
+
+ax_pthread_clang_warning=no
+
+# Clang needs special handling, because older versions handle the -pthread
+# option in a rather... idiosyncratic way
+
+if test "x$ax_pthread_clang" = "xyes"; then
+
+        # Clang takes -pthread; it has never supported any other flag
+
+        # (Note 1: This will need to be revisited if a system that Clang
+        # supports has POSIX threads in a separate library.  This tends not
+        # to be the way of modern systems, but it's conceivable.)
+
+        # (Note 2: On some systems, notably Darwin, -pthread is not needed
+        # to get POSIX threads support; the API is always present and
+        # active.  We could reasonably leave PTHREAD_CFLAGS empty.  But
+        # -pthread does define _REENTRANT, and while the Darwin headers
+        # ignore this macro, third-party headers might not.)
+
+        PTHREAD_CFLAGS="-pthread"
+        PTHREAD_LIBS=
+
+        ax_pthread_ok=yes
+
+        # However, older versions of Clang make a point of warning the user
+        # that, in an invocation where only linking and no compilation is
+        # taking place, the -pthread option has no effect ("argument unused
+        # during compilation").  They expect -pthread to be passed in only
+        # when source code is being compiled.
+        #
+        # Problem is, this is at odds with the way Automake and most other
+        # C build frameworks function, which is that the same flags used in
+        # compilation (CFLAGS) are also used in linking.  Many systems
+        # supported by AX_PTHREAD require exactly this for POSIX threads
+        # support, and in fact it is often not straightforward to specify a
+        # flag that is used only in the compilation phase and not in
+        # linking.  Such a scenario is extremely rare in practice.
+        #
+        # Even though use of the -pthread flag in linking would only print
+        # a warning, this can be a nuisance for well-run software projects
+        # that build with -Werror.  So if the active version of Clang has
+        # this misfeature, we search for an option to squash it.
+
+        { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether Clang needs flag to prevent \"argument unused\" warning when linking with -pthread" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking whether Clang needs flag to prevent \"argument unused\" warning when linking with -pthread... " >&6; }
+if ${ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG_NO_WARN_FLAG+:} false; then :
+  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
+else
+  ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG_NO_WARN_FLAG=unknown
+             # Create an alternate version of $ac_link that compiles and
+             # links in two steps (.c -> .o, .o -> exe) instead of one
+             # (.c -> exe), because the warning occurs only in the second
+             # step
+             ax_pthread_save_ac_link="$ac_link"
+             ax_pthread_sed='s/conftest\.\$ac_ext/conftest.$ac_objext/g'
+             ax_pthread_link_step=`$as_echo "$ac_link" | sed "$ax_pthread_sed"`
+             ax_pthread_2step_ac_link="($ac_compile) && (echo ==== >&5) && ($ax_pthread_link_step)"
+             ax_pthread_save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
+             for ax_pthread_try in '' -Qunused-arguments -Wno-unused-command-line-argument unknown; do
+                if test "x$ax_pthread_try" = "xunknown"; then :
+  break
+fi
+                CFLAGS="-Werror -Wunknown-warning-option $ax_pthread_try -pthread $ax_pthread_save_CFLAGS"
+                ac_link="$ax_pthread_save_ac_link"
+                cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
+/* end confdefs.h.  */
+int main(void){return 0;}
+_ACEOF
+if ac_fn_c_try_link "$LINENO"; then :
+  ac_link="$ax_pthread_2step_ac_link"
+                     cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
+/* end confdefs.h.  */
+int main(void){return 0;}
+_ACEOF
+if ac_fn_c_try_link "$LINENO"; then :
+  break
+fi
+rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
+    conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
+
+fi
+rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
+    conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
+             done
+             ac_link="$ax_pthread_save_ac_link"
+             CFLAGS="$ax_pthread_save_CFLAGS"
+             if test "x$ax_pthread_try" = "x"; then :
+  ax_pthread_try=no
+fi
+             ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG_NO_WARN_FLAG="$ax_pthread_try"
+
+fi
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG_NO_WARN_FLAG" >&5
+$as_echo "$ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG_NO_WARN_FLAG" >&6; }
+
+        case "$ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG_NO_WARN_FLAG" in
+                no | unknown) ;;
+                *) PTHREAD_CFLAGS="$ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG_NO_WARN_FLAG $PTHREAD_CFLAGS" ;;
+        esac
+
+fi # $ax_pthread_clang = yes
+
+if test "x$ax_pthread_ok" = "xno"; then
+for ax_pthread_try_flag in $ax_pthread_flags; do
+
+        case $ax_pthread_try_flag in
+                none)
+                { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether pthreads work without any flags" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking whether pthreads work without any flags... " >&6; }
+                ;;
+
+                -mt,pthread)
+                { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether pthreads work with -mt -lpthread" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking whether pthreads work with -mt -lpthread... " >&6; }
+                PTHREAD_CFLAGS="-mt"
+                PTHREAD_LIBS="-lpthread"
+                ;;
+
+                -*)
+                { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether pthreads work with $ax_pthread_try_flag" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking whether pthreads work with $ax_pthread_try_flag... " >&6; }
+                PTHREAD_CFLAGS="$ax_pthread_try_flag"
+                ;;
+
+                pthread-config)
+                # Extract the first word of "pthread-config", so it can be a program name with args.
+set dummy pthread-config; ac_word=$2
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for $ac_word" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking for $ac_word... " >&6; }
+if ${ac_cv_prog_ax_pthread_config+:} false; then :
+  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
+else
+  if test -n "$ax_pthread_config"; then
+  ac_cv_prog_ax_pthread_config="$ax_pthread_config" # Let the user override the test.
+else
+as_save_IFS=$IFS; IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR
+for as_dir in $PATH
+do
+  IFS=$as_save_IFS
+  test -z "$as_dir" && as_dir=.
+    for ac_exec_ext in '' $ac_executable_extensions; do
+  if as_fn_executable_p "$as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext"; then
+    ac_cv_prog_ax_pthread_config="yes"
+    $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: found $as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext" >&5
+    break 2
+  fi
+done
+  done
+IFS=$as_save_IFS
+
+  test -z "$ac_cv_prog_ax_pthread_config" && ac_cv_prog_ax_pthread_config="no"
+fi
+fi
+ax_pthread_config=$ac_cv_prog_ax_pthread_config
+if test -n "$ax_pthread_config"; then
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ax_pthread_config" >&5
+$as_echo "$ax_pthread_config" >&6; }
+else
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: no" >&5
+$as_echo "no" >&6; }
+fi
+
+
+                if test "x$ax_pthread_config" = "xno"; then :
+  continue
+fi
+                PTHREAD_CFLAGS="`pthread-config --cflags`"
+                PTHREAD_LIBS="`pthread-config --ldflags` `pthread-config --libs`"
+                ;;
+
+                *)
+                { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for the pthreads library -l$ax_pthread_try_flag" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking for the pthreads library -l$ax_pthread_try_flag... " >&6; }
+                PTHREAD_LIBS="-l$ax_pthread_try_flag"
+                ;;
+        esac
+
+        ax_pthread_save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
+        ax_pthread_save_LIBS="$LIBS"
+        CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS"
+        LIBS="$PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS"
+
+        # Check for various functions.  We must include pthread.h,
+        # since some functions may be macros.  (On the Sequent, we
+        # need a special flag -Kthread to make this header compile.)
+        # We check for pthread_join because it is in -lpthread on IRIX
+        # while pthread_create is in libc.  We check for pthread_attr_init
+        # due to DEC craziness with -lpthreads.  We check for
+        # pthread_cleanup_push because it is one of the few pthread
+        # functions on Solaris that doesn't have a non-functional libc stub.
+        # We try pthread_create on general principles.
+
+        cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
+/* end confdefs.h.  */
+#include <pthread.h>
+#                       if $ax_pthread_check_cond
+#                        error "$ax_pthread_check_macro must be defined"
+#                       endif
+                        static void routine(void *a) { a = 0; }
+                        static void *start_routine(void *a) { return a; }
+int
+main ()
+{
+pthread_t th; pthread_attr_t attr;
+                        pthread_create(&th, 0, start_routine, 0);
+                        pthread_join(th, 0);
+                        pthread_attr_init(&attr);
+                        pthread_cleanup_push(routine, 0);
+                        pthread_cleanup_pop(0) /* ; */
+  ;
+  return 0;
+}
+_ACEOF
+if ac_fn_c_try_link "$LINENO"; then :
+  ax_pthread_ok=yes
+fi
+rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
+    conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
+
+        CFLAGS="$ax_pthread_save_CFLAGS"
+        LIBS="$ax_pthread_save_LIBS"
+
+        { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ax_pthread_ok" >&5
+$as_echo "$ax_pthread_ok" >&6; }
+        if test "x$ax_pthread_ok" = "xyes"; then :
+  break
+fi
+
+        PTHREAD_LIBS=""
+        PTHREAD_CFLAGS=""
+done
+fi
+
+# Various other checks:
+if test "x$ax_pthread_ok" = "xyes"; then
+        ax_pthread_save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
+        ax_pthread_save_LIBS="$LIBS"
+        CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS"
+        LIBS="$PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS"
+
+        # Detect AIX lossage: JOINABLE attribute is called UNDETACHED.
+        { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for joinable pthread attribute" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking for joinable pthread attribute... " >&6; }
+if ${ax_cv_PTHREAD_JOINABLE_ATTR+:} false; then :
+  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
+else
+  ax_cv_PTHREAD_JOINABLE_ATTR=unknown
+             for ax_pthread_attr in PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE PTHREAD_CREATE_UNDETACHED; do
+                 cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
+/* end confdefs.h.  */
+#include <pthread.h>
+int
+main ()
+{
+int attr = $ax_pthread_attr; return attr /* ; */
+  ;
+  return 0;
+}
+_ACEOF
+if ac_fn_c_try_link "$LINENO"; then :
+  ax_cv_PTHREAD_JOINABLE_ATTR=$ax_pthread_attr; break
+fi
+rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
+    conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
+             done
+
+fi
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ax_cv_PTHREAD_JOINABLE_ATTR" >&5
+$as_echo "$ax_cv_PTHREAD_JOINABLE_ATTR" >&6; }
+        if test "x$ax_cv_PTHREAD_JOINABLE_ATTR" != "xunknown" && \
+               test "x$ax_cv_PTHREAD_JOINABLE_ATTR" != "xPTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE" && \
+               test "x$ax_pthread_joinable_attr_defined" != "xyes"; then :
+
+cat >>confdefs.h <<_ACEOF
+#define PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE $ax_cv_PTHREAD_JOINABLE_ATTR
+_ACEOF
+
+               ax_pthread_joinable_attr_defined=yes
+
+fi
+
+        { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether more special flags are required for pthreads" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking whether more special flags are required for pthreads... " >&6; }
+if ${ax_cv_PTHREAD_SPECIAL_FLAGS+:} false; then :
+  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
+else
+  ax_cv_PTHREAD_SPECIAL_FLAGS=no
+             case $host_os in
+             solaris*)
+             ax_cv_PTHREAD_SPECIAL_FLAGS="-D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS"
+             ;;
+             esac
+
+fi
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ax_cv_PTHREAD_SPECIAL_FLAGS" >&5
+$as_echo "$ax_cv_PTHREAD_SPECIAL_FLAGS" >&6; }
+        if test "x$ax_cv_PTHREAD_SPECIAL_FLAGS" != "xno" && \
+               test "x$ax_pthread_special_flags_added" != "xyes"; then :
+  PTHREAD_CFLAGS="$ax_cv_PTHREAD_SPECIAL_FLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS"
+               ax_pthread_special_flags_added=yes
+fi
+
+        { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking for PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT... " >&6; }
+if ${ax_cv_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT+:} false; then :
+  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
+else
+  cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
+/* end confdefs.h.  */
+#include <pthread.h>
+int
+main ()
+{
+int i = PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT;
+  ;
+  return 0;
+}
+_ACEOF
+if ac_fn_c_try_link "$LINENO"; then :
+  ax_cv_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT=yes
+else
+  ax_cv_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT=no
+fi
+rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
+    conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
+
+fi
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ax_cv_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT" >&5
+$as_echo "$ax_cv_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT" >&6; }
+        if test "x$ax_cv_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT" = "xyes" && \
+               test "x$ax_pthread_prio_inherit_defined" != "xyes"; then :
+
+$as_echo "#define HAVE_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT 1" >>confdefs.h
+
+               ax_pthread_prio_inherit_defined=yes
+
+fi
+
+        CFLAGS="$ax_pthread_save_CFLAGS"
+        LIBS="$ax_pthread_save_LIBS"
+
+        # More AIX lossage: compile with *_r variant
+        if test "x$GCC" != "xyes"; then
+            case $host_os in
+                aix*)
+                case "x/$CC" in #(
+  x*/c89|x*/c89_128|x*/c99|x*/c99_128|x*/cc|x*/cc128|x*/xlc|x*/xlc_v6|x*/xlc128|x*/xlc128_v6) :
+    #handle absolute path differently from PATH based program lookup
+                     case "x$CC" in #(
+  x/*) :
+    if as_fn_executable_p ${CC}_r; then :
+  PTHREAD_CC="${CC}_r"
+fi ;; #(
+  *) :
+    for ac_prog in ${CC}_r
+do
+  # Extract the first word of "$ac_prog", so it can be a program name with args.
+set dummy $ac_prog; ac_word=$2
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for $ac_word" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking for $ac_word... " >&6; }
+if ${ac_cv_prog_PTHREAD_CC+:} false; then :
+  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
+else
+  if test -n "$PTHREAD_CC"; then
+  ac_cv_prog_PTHREAD_CC="$PTHREAD_CC" # Let the user override the test.
+else
+as_save_IFS=$IFS; IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR
+for as_dir in $PATH
+do
+  IFS=$as_save_IFS
+  test -z "$as_dir" && as_dir=.
+    for ac_exec_ext in '' $ac_executable_extensions; do
+  if as_fn_executable_p "$as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext"; then
+    ac_cv_prog_PTHREAD_CC="$ac_prog"
+    $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: found $as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext" >&5
+    break 2
+  fi
+done
+  done
+IFS=$as_save_IFS
+
+fi
+fi
+PTHREAD_CC=$ac_cv_prog_PTHREAD_CC
+if test -n "$PTHREAD_CC"; then
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $PTHREAD_CC" >&5
+$as_echo "$PTHREAD_CC" >&6; }
+else
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: no" >&5
+$as_echo "no" >&6; }
+fi
+
+
+  test -n "$PTHREAD_CC" && break
+done
+test -n "$PTHREAD_CC" || PTHREAD_CC="$CC"
+ ;;
+esac ;; #(
+  *) :
+     ;;
+esac
+                ;;
+            esac
+        fi
+fi
+
+test -n "$PTHREAD_CC" || PTHREAD_CC="$CC"
+
+
+
+
+
+# Finally, execute ACTION-IF-FOUND/ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND:
+if test "x$ax_pthread_ok" = "xyes"; then
+        threads=yes
+        :
+else
+        ax_pthread_ok=no
+        threads=no
+fi
+ac_ext=cpp
+ac_cpp='$CXXCPP $CPPFLAGS'
+ac_compile='$CXX -c $CXXFLAGS $CPPFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext >&5'
+ac_link='$CXX -o conftest$ac_exeext $CXXFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext $LIBS >&5'
+ac_compiler_gnu=$ac_cv_cxx_compiler_gnu
+
+
+  if test "$threads" = "yes"; then
+    save_LIBS="$LIBS"
+    LIBS="$PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS"
+    save_CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS"
+    CXXFLAGS="$PTHREAD_CFLAGS $save_CFLAGS"
+    { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for std::thread" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking for std::thread... " >&6; }
+if ${gdb_cv_cxx_std_thread+:} false; then :
+  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
+else
+  cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
+/* end confdefs.h.  */
+#include <thread>
+      void callback() { }
+int
+main ()
+{
+std::thread t(callback);
+  ;
+  return 0;
+}
+_ACEOF
+if ac_fn_cxx_try_compile "$LINENO"; then :
+  gdb_cv_cxx_std_thread=yes
+else
+  gdb_cv_cxx_std_thread=no
+fi
+rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext conftest.$ac_ext
+fi
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $gdb_cv_cxx_std_thread" >&5
+$as_echo "$gdb_cv_cxx_std_thread" >&6; }
+    LIBS="$save_LIBS"
+    CXXFLAGS="$save_CXXFLAGS"
+  fi
+  if test $gdb_cv_cxx_std_thread = yes; then
+
+$as_echo "#define CXX_STD_THREAD 1" >>confdefs.h
+
+  fi
+  ac_ext=c
+ac_cpp='$CPP $CPPFLAGS'
+ac_compile='$CC -c $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext >&5'
+ac_link='$CC -o conftest$ac_exeext $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext $LIBS >&5'
+ac_compiler_gnu=$ac_cv_c_compiler_gnu
+
+
     { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for sigsetjmp" >&5
 $as_echo_n "checking for sigsetjmp... " >&6; }
 if ${gdb_cv_func_sigsetjmp+:} false; then :
diff --git a/gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog b/gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog
index e3a7ebe..768aaf7 100644
--- a/gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 2019-10-19  Tom Tromey  <tom@tromey.com>
 
+	* Makefile.in (PTHREAD_CFLAGS, PTHREAD_LIBS): New variables.
+	(INTERNAL_CFLAGS_BASE): Use PTHREAD_CFLAGS.
+	(GDBSERVER_LIBS): Use PTHREAD_LIBS.
+	* acinclude.m4: Include ax_pthread.m4.
+	* config.in, configure: Rebuild.
+
+2019-10-19  Tom Tromey  <tom@tromey.com>
+
 	* configure, config.in: Rebuild.
 
 2019-10-19  Tom Tromey  <tom@tromey.com>
diff --git a/gdb/gdbserver/Makefile.in b/gdb/gdbserver/Makefile.in
index b9b5b89..0659156 100644
--- a/gdb/gdbserver/Makefile.in
+++ b/gdb/gdbserver/Makefile.in
@@ -139,9 +139,12 @@
 CXXFLAGS = @CXXFLAGS@
 CPPFLAGS = @CPPFLAGS@
 
+PTHREAD_CFLAGS = @PTHREAD_CFLAGS@
+PTHREAD_LIBS = @PTHREAD_LIBS@
+
 # INTERNAL_CFLAGS is the aggregate of all other *CFLAGS macros.
 INTERNAL_CFLAGS_BASE = ${CXXFLAGS} ${GLOBAL_CFLAGS} \
-	${PROFILE_CFLAGS} ${INCLUDE_CFLAGS} ${CPPFLAGS}
+	${PROFILE_CFLAGS} ${INCLUDE_CFLAGS} ${CPPFLAGS} $(PTHREAD_CFLAGS)
 INTERNAL_WARN_CFLAGS = ${INTERNAL_CFLAGS_BASE} $(WARN_CFLAGS)
 INTERNAL_CFLAGS = ${INTERNAL_WARN_CFLAGS} $(WERROR_CFLAGS) -DGDBSERVER
 
@@ -303,7 +306,7 @@
 	utils.o \
 	version.o
 
-GDBSERVER_LIBS = @GDBSERVER_LIBS@
+GDBSERVER_LIBS = @GDBSERVER_LIBS@ $(PTHREAD_LIBS)
 XM_CLIBS = @LIBS@
 CDEPS = $(srcdir)/proc-service.list
 
diff --git a/gdb/gdbserver/acinclude.m4 b/gdb/gdbserver/acinclude.m4
index 880c03a..4c18e9b 100644
--- a/gdb/gdbserver/acinclude.m4
+++ b/gdb/gdbserver/acinclude.m4
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@
 dnl For GDB_AC_SELFTEST.
 m4_include(../selftest.m4)
 
+m4_include([../../config/ax_pthread.m4])
+
 dnl Check for existence of a type $1 in libthread_db.h
 dnl Based on BFD_HAVE_SYS_PROCFS_TYPE in bfd/bfd.m4.
 
diff --git a/gdb/gdbserver/config.in b/gdb/gdbserver/config.in
index 0bce18d..4276bce 100644
--- a/gdb/gdbserver/config.in
+++ b/gdb/gdbserver/config.in
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
    */
 #undef CRAY_STACKSEG_END
 
+/* Define to 1 if std::thread works. */
+#undef CXX_STD_THREAD
+
 /* Define to 1 if using `alloca.c'. */
 #undef C_ALLOCA
 
@@ -189,6 +192,9 @@
 /* Define if <thread_db.h> has psaddr_t. */
 #undef HAVE_PSADDR_T
 
+/* Have PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT. */
+#undef HAVE_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT
+
 /* Define if the target supports PTRACE_GETFPXREGS for extended register
    access. */
 #undef HAVE_PTRACE_GETFPXREGS
@@ -334,6 +340,10 @@
 /* Additional package description */
 #undef PKGVERSION
 
+/* Define to necessary symbol if this constant uses a non-standard name on
+   your system. */
+#undef PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE
+
 /* Define to the type of arg 1 for ptrace. */
 #undef PTRACE_TYPE_ARG1
 
diff --git a/gdb/gdbserver/configure b/gdb/gdbserver/configure
index e513fc5..019552d 100755
--- a/gdb/gdbserver/configure
+++ b/gdb/gdbserver/configure
@@ -636,6 +636,11 @@
 WARN_CFLAGS
 ustinc
 ustlibs
+PTHREAD_CFLAGS
+PTHREAD_LIBS
+PTHREAD_CC
+ax_pthread_config
+SED
 ALLOCA
 CCDEPMODE
 CONFIG_SRC_SUBDIR
@@ -6472,6 +6477,75 @@
 
 fi
 
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for a sed that does not truncate output" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking for a sed that does not truncate output... " >&6; }
+if ${ac_cv_path_SED+:} false; then :
+  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
+else
+            ac_script=s/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb/
+     for ac_i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do
+       ac_script="$ac_script$as_nl$ac_script"
+     done
+     echo "$ac_script" 2>/dev/null | sed 99q >conftest.sed
+     { ac_script=; unset ac_script;}
+     if test -z "$SED"; then
+  ac_path_SED_found=false
+  # Loop through the user's path and test for each of PROGNAME-LIST
+  as_save_IFS=$IFS; IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR
+for as_dir in $PATH
+do
+  IFS=$as_save_IFS
+  test -z "$as_dir" && as_dir=.
+    for ac_prog in sed gsed; do
+    for ac_exec_ext in '' $ac_executable_extensions; do
+      ac_path_SED="$as_dir/$ac_prog$ac_exec_ext"
+      as_fn_executable_p "$ac_path_SED" || continue
+# Check for GNU ac_path_SED and select it if it is found.
+  # Check for GNU $ac_path_SED
+case `"$ac_path_SED" --version 2>&1` in
+*GNU*)
+  ac_cv_path_SED="$ac_path_SED" ac_path_SED_found=:;;
+*)
+  ac_count=0
+  $as_echo_n 0123456789 >"conftest.in"
+  while :
+  do
+    cat "conftest.in" "conftest.in" >"conftest.tmp"
+    mv "conftest.tmp" "conftest.in"
+    cp "conftest.in" "conftest.nl"
+    $as_echo '' >> "conftest.nl"
+    "$ac_path_SED" -f conftest.sed < "conftest.nl" >"conftest.out" 2>/dev/null || break
+    diff "conftest.out" "conftest.nl" >/dev/null 2>&1 || break
+    as_fn_arith $ac_count + 1 && ac_count=$as_val
+    if test $ac_count -gt ${ac_path_SED_max-0}; then
+      # Best one so far, save it but keep looking for a better one
+      ac_cv_path_SED="$ac_path_SED"
+      ac_path_SED_max=$ac_count
+    fi
+    # 10*(2^10) chars as input seems more than enough
+    test $ac_count -gt 10 && break
+  done
+  rm -f conftest.in conftest.tmp conftest.nl conftest.out;;
+esac
+
+      $ac_path_SED_found && break 3
+    done
+  done
+  done
+IFS=$as_save_IFS
+  if test -z "$ac_cv_path_SED"; then
+    as_fn_error $? "no acceptable sed could be found in \$PATH" "$LINENO" 5
+  fi
+else
+  ac_cv_path_SED=$SED
+fi
+
+fi
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ac_cv_path_SED" >&5
+$as_echo "$ac_cv_path_SED" >&6; }
+ SED="$ac_cv_path_SED"
+  rm -f conftest.sed
+
 
   { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for ANSI C header files" >&5
 $as_echo_n "checking for ANSI C header files... " >&6; }
@@ -6857,6 +6931,699 @@
 _ACEOF
 
 
+  # Check for std::thread.  This does not work on some platforms, like
+  # mingw and DJGPP.
+  ac_ext=cpp
+ac_cpp='$CXXCPP $CPPFLAGS'
+ac_compile='$CXX -c $CXXFLAGS $CPPFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext >&5'
+ac_link='$CXX -o conftest$ac_exeext $CXXFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext $LIBS >&5'
+ac_compiler_gnu=$ac_cv_cxx_compiler_gnu
+
+
+
+
+
+ac_ext=c
+ac_cpp='$CPP $CPPFLAGS'
+ac_compile='$CC -c $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext >&5'
+ac_link='$CC -o conftest$ac_exeext $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext $LIBS >&5'
+ac_compiler_gnu=$ac_cv_c_compiler_gnu
+
+ax_pthread_ok=no
+
+# We used to check for pthread.h first, but this fails if pthread.h
+# requires special compiler flags (e.g. on Tru64 or Sequent).
+# It gets checked for in the link test anyway.
+
+# First of all, check if the user has set any of the PTHREAD_LIBS,
+# etcetera environment variables, and if threads linking works using
+# them:
+if test "x$PTHREAD_CFLAGS$PTHREAD_LIBS" != "x"; then
+        ax_pthread_save_CC="$CC"
+        ax_pthread_save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
+        ax_pthread_save_LIBS="$LIBS"
+        if test "x$PTHREAD_CC" != "x"; then :
+  CC="$PTHREAD_CC"
+fi
+        CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS"
+        LIBS="$PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS"
+        { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for pthread_join using $CC $PTHREAD_CFLAGS $PTHREAD_LIBS" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking for pthread_join using $CC $PTHREAD_CFLAGS $PTHREAD_LIBS... " >&6; }
+        cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
+/* end confdefs.h.  */
+
+/* Override any GCC internal prototype to avoid an error.
+   Use char because int might match the return type of a GCC
+   builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply.  */
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C"
+#endif
+char pthread_join ();
+int
+main ()
+{
+return pthread_join ();
+  ;
+  return 0;
+}
+_ACEOF
+if ac_fn_c_try_link "$LINENO"; then :
+  ax_pthread_ok=yes
+fi
+rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
+    conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
+        { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ax_pthread_ok" >&5
+$as_echo "$ax_pthread_ok" >&6; }
+        if test "x$ax_pthread_ok" = "xno"; then
+                PTHREAD_LIBS=""
+                PTHREAD_CFLAGS=""
+        fi
+        CC="$ax_pthread_save_CC"
+        CFLAGS="$ax_pthread_save_CFLAGS"
+        LIBS="$ax_pthread_save_LIBS"
+fi
+
+# We must check for the threads library under a number of different
+# names; the ordering is very important because some systems
+# (e.g. DEC) have both -lpthread and -lpthreads, where one of the
+# libraries is broken (non-POSIX).
+
+# Create a list of thread flags to try.  Items starting with a "-" are
+# C compiler flags, and other items are library names, except for "none"
+# which indicates that we try without any flags at all, and "pthread-config"
+# which is a program returning the flags for the Pth emulation library.
+
+ax_pthread_flags="pthreads none -Kthread -pthread -pthreads -mthreads pthread --thread-safe -mt pthread-config"
+
+# The ordering *is* (sometimes) important.  Some notes on the
+# individual items follow:
+
+# pthreads: AIX (must check this before -lpthread)
+# none: in case threads are in libc; should be tried before -Kthread and
+#       other compiler flags to prevent continual compiler warnings
+# -Kthread: Sequent (threads in libc, but -Kthread needed for pthread.h)
+# -pthread: Linux/gcc (kernel threads), BSD/gcc (userland threads), Tru64
+#           (Note: HP C rejects this with "bad form for `-t' option")
+# -pthreads: Solaris/gcc (Note: HP C also rejects)
+# -mt: Sun Workshop C (may only link SunOS threads [-lthread], but it
+#      doesn't hurt to check since this sometimes defines pthreads and
+#      -D_REENTRANT too), HP C (must be checked before -lpthread, which
+#      is present but should not be used directly; and before -mthreads,
+#      because the compiler interprets this as "-mt" + "-hreads")
+# -mthreads: Mingw32/gcc, Lynx/gcc
+# pthread: Linux, etcetera
+# --thread-safe: KAI C++
+# pthread-config: use pthread-config program (for GNU Pth library)
+
+case $host_os in
+
+        freebsd*)
+
+        # -kthread: FreeBSD kernel threads (preferred to -pthread since SMP-able)
+        # lthread: LinuxThreads port on FreeBSD (also preferred to -pthread)
+
+        ax_pthread_flags="-kthread lthread $ax_pthread_flags"
+        ;;
+
+        hpux*)
+
+        # From the cc(1) man page: "[-mt] Sets various -D flags to enable
+        # multi-threading and also sets -lpthread."
+
+        ax_pthread_flags="-mt -pthread pthread $ax_pthread_flags"
+        ;;
+
+        openedition*)
+
+        # IBM z/OS requires a feature-test macro to be defined in order to
+        # enable POSIX threads at all, so give the user a hint if this is
+        # not set. (We don't define these ourselves, as they can affect
+        # other portions of the system API in unpredictable ways.)
+
+        cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
+/* end confdefs.h.  */
+
+#            if !defined(_OPEN_THREADS) && !defined(_UNIX03_THREADS)
+             AX_PTHREAD_ZOS_MISSING
+#            endif
+
+_ACEOF
+if (eval "$ac_cpp conftest.$ac_ext") 2>&5 |
+  $EGREP "AX_PTHREAD_ZOS_MISSING" >/dev/null 2>&1; then :
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: WARNING: IBM z/OS requires -D_OPEN_THREADS or -D_UNIX03_THREADS to enable pthreads support." >&5
+$as_echo "$as_me: WARNING: IBM z/OS requires -D_OPEN_THREADS or -D_UNIX03_THREADS to enable pthreads support." >&2;}
+fi
+rm -f conftest*
+
+        ;;
+
+        solaris*)
+
+        # On Solaris (at least, for some versions), libc contains stubbed
+        # (non-functional) versions of the pthreads routines, so link-based
+        # tests will erroneously succeed. (N.B.: The stubs are missing
+        # pthread_cleanup_push, or rather a function called by this macro,
+        # so we could check for that, but who knows whether they'll stub
+        # that too in a future libc.)  So we'll check first for the
+        # standard Solaris way of linking pthreads (-mt -lpthread).
+
+        ax_pthread_flags="-mt,pthread pthread $ax_pthread_flags"
+        ;;
+esac
+
+# GCC generally uses -pthread, or -pthreads on some platforms (e.g. SPARC)
+
+if test "x$GCC" = "xyes"; then :
+  ax_pthread_flags="-pthread -pthreads $ax_pthread_flags"
+fi
+
+# The presence of a feature test macro requesting re-entrant function
+# definitions is, on some systems, a strong hint that pthreads support is
+# correctly enabled
+
+case $host_os in
+        darwin* | hpux* | linux* | osf* | solaris*)
+        ax_pthread_check_macro="_REENTRANT"
+        ;;
+
+        aix*)
+        ax_pthread_check_macro="_THREAD_SAFE"
+        ;;
+
+        *)
+        ax_pthread_check_macro="--"
+        ;;
+esac
+if test "x$ax_pthread_check_macro" = "x--"; then :
+  ax_pthread_check_cond=0
+else
+  ax_pthread_check_cond="!defined($ax_pthread_check_macro)"
+fi
+
+# Are we compiling with Clang?
+
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether $CC is Clang" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking whether $CC is Clang... " >&6; }
+if ${ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG+:} false; then :
+  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
+else
+  ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG=no
+     # Note that Autoconf sets GCC=yes for Clang as well as GCC
+     if test "x$GCC" = "xyes"; then
+        cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
+/* end confdefs.h.  */
+/* Note: Clang 2.7 lacks __clang_[a-z]+__ */
+#            if defined(__clang__) && defined(__llvm__)
+             AX_PTHREAD_CC_IS_CLANG
+#            endif
+
+_ACEOF
+if (eval "$ac_cpp conftest.$ac_ext") 2>&5 |
+  $EGREP "AX_PTHREAD_CC_IS_CLANG" >/dev/null 2>&1; then :
+  ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG=yes
+fi
+rm -f conftest*
+
+     fi
+
+fi
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG" >&5
+$as_echo "$ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG" >&6; }
+ax_pthread_clang="$ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG"
+
+ax_pthread_clang_warning=no
+
+# Clang needs special handling, because older versions handle the -pthread
+# option in a rather... idiosyncratic way
+
+if test "x$ax_pthread_clang" = "xyes"; then
+
+        # Clang takes -pthread; it has never supported any other flag
+
+        # (Note 1: This will need to be revisited if a system that Clang
+        # supports has POSIX threads in a separate library.  This tends not
+        # to be the way of modern systems, but it's conceivable.)
+
+        # (Note 2: On some systems, notably Darwin, -pthread is not needed
+        # to get POSIX threads support; the API is always present and
+        # active.  We could reasonably leave PTHREAD_CFLAGS empty.  But
+        # -pthread does define _REENTRANT, and while the Darwin headers
+        # ignore this macro, third-party headers might not.)
+
+        PTHREAD_CFLAGS="-pthread"
+        PTHREAD_LIBS=
+
+        ax_pthread_ok=yes
+
+        # However, older versions of Clang make a point of warning the user
+        # that, in an invocation where only linking and no compilation is
+        # taking place, the -pthread option has no effect ("argument unused
+        # during compilation").  They expect -pthread to be passed in only
+        # when source code is being compiled.
+        #
+        # Problem is, this is at odds with the way Automake and most other
+        # C build frameworks function, which is that the same flags used in
+        # compilation (CFLAGS) are also used in linking.  Many systems
+        # supported by AX_PTHREAD require exactly this for POSIX threads
+        # support, and in fact it is often not straightforward to specify a
+        # flag that is used only in the compilation phase and not in
+        # linking.  Such a scenario is extremely rare in practice.
+        #
+        # Even though use of the -pthread flag in linking would only print
+        # a warning, this can be a nuisance for well-run software projects
+        # that build with -Werror.  So if the active version of Clang has
+        # this misfeature, we search for an option to squash it.
+
+        { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether Clang needs flag to prevent \"argument unused\" warning when linking with -pthread" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking whether Clang needs flag to prevent \"argument unused\" warning when linking with -pthread... " >&6; }
+if ${ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG_NO_WARN_FLAG+:} false; then :
+  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
+else
+  ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG_NO_WARN_FLAG=unknown
+             # Create an alternate version of $ac_link that compiles and
+             # links in two steps (.c -> .o, .o -> exe) instead of one
+             # (.c -> exe), because the warning occurs only in the second
+             # step
+             ax_pthread_save_ac_link="$ac_link"
+             ax_pthread_sed='s/conftest\.\$ac_ext/conftest.$ac_objext/g'
+             ax_pthread_link_step=`$as_echo "$ac_link" | sed "$ax_pthread_sed"`
+             ax_pthread_2step_ac_link="($ac_compile) && (echo ==== >&5) && ($ax_pthread_link_step)"
+             ax_pthread_save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
+             for ax_pthread_try in '' -Qunused-arguments -Wno-unused-command-line-argument unknown; do
+                if test "x$ax_pthread_try" = "xunknown"; then :
+  break
+fi
+                CFLAGS="-Werror -Wunknown-warning-option $ax_pthread_try -pthread $ax_pthread_save_CFLAGS"
+                ac_link="$ax_pthread_save_ac_link"
+                cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
+/* end confdefs.h.  */
+int main(void){return 0;}
+_ACEOF
+if ac_fn_c_try_link "$LINENO"; then :
+  ac_link="$ax_pthread_2step_ac_link"
+                     cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
+/* end confdefs.h.  */
+int main(void){return 0;}
+_ACEOF
+if ac_fn_c_try_link "$LINENO"; then :
+  break
+fi
+rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
+    conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
+
+fi
+rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
+    conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
+             done
+             ac_link="$ax_pthread_save_ac_link"
+             CFLAGS="$ax_pthread_save_CFLAGS"
+             if test "x$ax_pthread_try" = "x"; then :
+  ax_pthread_try=no
+fi
+             ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG_NO_WARN_FLAG="$ax_pthread_try"
+
+fi
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG_NO_WARN_FLAG" >&5
+$as_echo "$ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG_NO_WARN_FLAG" >&6; }
+
+        case "$ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG_NO_WARN_FLAG" in
+                no | unknown) ;;
+                *) PTHREAD_CFLAGS="$ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG_NO_WARN_FLAG $PTHREAD_CFLAGS" ;;
+        esac
+
+fi # $ax_pthread_clang = yes
+
+if test "x$ax_pthread_ok" = "xno"; then
+for ax_pthread_try_flag in $ax_pthread_flags; do
+
+        case $ax_pthread_try_flag in
+                none)
+                { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether pthreads work without any flags" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking whether pthreads work without any flags... " >&6; }
+                ;;
+
+                -mt,pthread)
+                { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether pthreads work with -mt -lpthread" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking whether pthreads work with -mt -lpthread... " >&6; }
+                PTHREAD_CFLAGS="-mt"
+                PTHREAD_LIBS="-lpthread"
+                ;;
+
+                -*)
+                { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether pthreads work with $ax_pthread_try_flag" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking whether pthreads work with $ax_pthread_try_flag... " >&6; }
+                PTHREAD_CFLAGS="$ax_pthread_try_flag"
+                ;;
+
+                pthread-config)
+                # Extract the first word of "pthread-config", so it can be a program name with args.
+set dummy pthread-config; ac_word=$2
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for $ac_word" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking for $ac_word... " >&6; }
+if ${ac_cv_prog_ax_pthread_config+:} false; then :
+  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
+else
+  if test -n "$ax_pthread_config"; then
+  ac_cv_prog_ax_pthread_config="$ax_pthread_config" # Let the user override the test.
+else
+as_save_IFS=$IFS; IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR
+for as_dir in $PATH
+do
+  IFS=$as_save_IFS
+  test -z "$as_dir" && as_dir=.
+    for ac_exec_ext in '' $ac_executable_extensions; do
+  if as_fn_executable_p "$as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext"; then
+    ac_cv_prog_ax_pthread_config="yes"
+    $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: found $as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext" >&5
+    break 2
+  fi
+done
+  done
+IFS=$as_save_IFS
+
+  test -z "$ac_cv_prog_ax_pthread_config" && ac_cv_prog_ax_pthread_config="no"
+fi
+fi
+ax_pthread_config=$ac_cv_prog_ax_pthread_config
+if test -n "$ax_pthread_config"; then
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ax_pthread_config" >&5
+$as_echo "$ax_pthread_config" >&6; }
+else
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: no" >&5
+$as_echo "no" >&6; }
+fi
+
+
+                if test "x$ax_pthread_config" = "xno"; then :
+  continue
+fi
+                PTHREAD_CFLAGS="`pthread-config --cflags`"
+                PTHREAD_LIBS="`pthread-config --ldflags` `pthread-config --libs`"
+                ;;
+
+                *)
+                { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for the pthreads library -l$ax_pthread_try_flag" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking for the pthreads library -l$ax_pthread_try_flag... " >&6; }
+                PTHREAD_LIBS="-l$ax_pthread_try_flag"
+                ;;
+        esac
+
+        ax_pthread_save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
+        ax_pthread_save_LIBS="$LIBS"
+        CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS"
+        LIBS="$PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS"
+
+        # Check for various functions.  We must include pthread.h,
+        # since some functions may be macros.  (On the Sequent, we
+        # need a special flag -Kthread to make this header compile.)
+        # We check for pthread_join because it is in -lpthread on IRIX
+        # while pthread_create is in libc.  We check for pthread_attr_init
+        # due to DEC craziness with -lpthreads.  We check for
+        # pthread_cleanup_push because it is one of the few pthread
+        # functions on Solaris that doesn't have a non-functional libc stub.
+        # We try pthread_create on general principles.
+
+        cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
+/* end confdefs.h.  */
+#include <pthread.h>
+#                       if $ax_pthread_check_cond
+#                        error "$ax_pthread_check_macro must be defined"
+#                       endif
+                        static void routine(void *a) { a = 0; }
+                        static void *start_routine(void *a) { return a; }
+int
+main ()
+{
+pthread_t th; pthread_attr_t attr;
+                        pthread_create(&th, 0, start_routine, 0);
+                        pthread_join(th, 0);
+                        pthread_attr_init(&attr);
+                        pthread_cleanup_push(routine, 0);
+                        pthread_cleanup_pop(0) /* ; */
+  ;
+  return 0;
+}
+_ACEOF
+if ac_fn_c_try_link "$LINENO"; then :
+  ax_pthread_ok=yes
+fi
+rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
+    conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
+
+        CFLAGS="$ax_pthread_save_CFLAGS"
+        LIBS="$ax_pthread_save_LIBS"
+
+        { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ax_pthread_ok" >&5
+$as_echo "$ax_pthread_ok" >&6; }
+        if test "x$ax_pthread_ok" = "xyes"; then :
+  break
+fi
+
+        PTHREAD_LIBS=""
+        PTHREAD_CFLAGS=""
+done
+fi
+
+# Various other checks:
+if test "x$ax_pthread_ok" = "xyes"; then
+        ax_pthread_save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
+        ax_pthread_save_LIBS="$LIBS"
+        CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS"
+        LIBS="$PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS"
+
+        # Detect AIX lossage: JOINABLE attribute is called UNDETACHED.
+        { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for joinable pthread attribute" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking for joinable pthread attribute... " >&6; }
+if ${ax_cv_PTHREAD_JOINABLE_ATTR+:} false; then :
+  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
+else
+  ax_cv_PTHREAD_JOINABLE_ATTR=unknown
+             for ax_pthread_attr in PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE PTHREAD_CREATE_UNDETACHED; do
+                 cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
+/* end confdefs.h.  */
+#include <pthread.h>
+int
+main ()
+{
+int attr = $ax_pthread_attr; return attr /* ; */
+  ;
+  return 0;
+}
+_ACEOF
+if ac_fn_c_try_link "$LINENO"; then :
+  ax_cv_PTHREAD_JOINABLE_ATTR=$ax_pthread_attr; break
+fi
+rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
+    conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
+             done
+
+fi
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ax_cv_PTHREAD_JOINABLE_ATTR" >&5
+$as_echo "$ax_cv_PTHREAD_JOINABLE_ATTR" >&6; }
+        if test "x$ax_cv_PTHREAD_JOINABLE_ATTR" != "xunknown" && \
+               test "x$ax_cv_PTHREAD_JOINABLE_ATTR" != "xPTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE" && \
+               test "x$ax_pthread_joinable_attr_defined" != "xyes"; then :
+
+cat >>confdefs.h <<_ACEOF
+#define PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE $ax_cv_PTHREAD_JOINABLE_ATTR
+_ACEOF
+
+               ax_pthread_joinable_attr_defined=yes
+
+fi
+
+        { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether more special flags are required for pthreads" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking whether more special flags are required for pthreads... " >&6; }
+if ${ax_cv_PTHREAD_SPECIAL_FLAGS+:} false; then :
+  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
+else
+  ax_cv_PTHREAD_SPECIAL_FLAGS=no
+             case $host_os in
+             solaris*)
+             ax_cv_PTHREAD_SPECIAL_FLAGS="-D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS"
+             ;;
+             esac
+
+fi
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ax_cv_PTHREAD_SPECIAL_FLAGS" >&5
+$as_echo "$ax_cv_PTHREAD_SPECIAL_FLAGS" >&6; }
+        if test "x$ax_cv_PTHREAD_SPECIAL_FLAGS" != "xno" && \
+               test "x$ax_pthread_special_flags_added" != "xyes"; then :
+  PTHREAD_CFLAGS="$ax_cv_PTHREAD_SPECIAL_FLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS"
+               ax_pthread_special_flags_added=yes
+fi
+
+        { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking for PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT... " >&6; }
+if ${ax_cv_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT+:} false; then :
+  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
+else
+  cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
+/* end confdefs.h.  */
+#include <pthread.h>
+int
+main ()
+{
+int i = PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT;
+  ;
+  return 0;
+}
+_ACEOF
+if ac_fn_c_try_link "$LINENO"; then :
+  ax_cv_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT=yes
+else
+  ax_cv_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT=no
+fi
+rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
+    conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
+
+fi
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ax_cv_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT" >&5
+$as_echo "$ax_cv_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT" >&6; }
+        if test "x$ax_cv_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT" = "xyes" && \
+               test "x$ax_pthread_prio_inherit_defined" != "xyes"; then :
+
+$as_echo "#define HAVE_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT 1" >>confdefs.h
+
+               ax_pthread_prio_inherit_defined=yes
+
+fi
+
+        CFLAGS="$ax_pthread_save_CFLAGS"
+        LIBS="$ax_pthread_save_LIBS"
+
+        # More AIX lossage: compile with *_r variant
+        if test "x$GCC" != "xyes"; then
+            case $host_os in
+                aix*)
+                case "x/$CC" in #(
+  x*/c89|x*/c89_128|x*/c99|x*/c99_128|x*/cc|x*/cc128|x*/xlc|x*/xlc_v6|x*/xlc128|x*/xlc128_v6) :
+    #handle absolute path differently from PATH based program lookup
+                     case "x$CC" in #(
+  x/*) :
+    if as_fn_executable_p ${CC}_r; then :
+  PTHREAD_CC="${CC}_r"
+fi ;; #(
+  *) :
+    for ac_prog in ${CC}_r
+do
+  # Extract the first word of "$ac_prog", so it can be a program name with args.
+set dummy $ac_prog; ac_word=$2
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for $ac_word" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking for $ac_word... " >&6; }
+if ${ac_cv_prog_PTHREAD_CC+:} false; then :
+  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
+else
+  if test -n "$PTHREAD_CC"; then
+  ac_cv_prog_PTHREAD_CC="$PTHREAD_CC" # Let the user override the test.
+else
+as_save_IFS=$IFS; IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR
+for as_dir in $PATH
+do
+  IFS=$as_save_IFS
+  test -z "$as_dir" && as_dir=.
+    for ac_exec_ext in '' $ac_executable_extensions; do
+  if as_fn_executable_p "$as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext"; then
+    ac_cv_prog_PTHREAD_CC="$ac_prog"
+    $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: found $as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext" >&5
+    break 2
+  fi
+done
+  done
+IFS=$as_save_IFS
+
+fi
+fi
+PTHREAD_CC=$ac_cv_prog_PTHREAD_CC
+if test -n "$PTHREAD_CC"; then
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $PTHREAD_CC" >&5
+$as_echo "$PTHREAD_CC" >&6; }
+else
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: no" >&5
+$as_echo "no" >&6; }
+fi
+
+
+  test -n "$PTHREAD_CC" && break
+done
+test -n "$PTHREAD_CC" || PTHREAD_CC="$CC"
+ ;;
+esac ;; #(
+  *) :
+     ;;
+esac
+                ;;
+            esac
+        fi
+fi
+
+test -n "$PTHREAD_CC" || PTHREAD_CC="$CC"
+
+
+
+
+
+# Finally, execute ACTION-IF-FOUND/ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND:
+if test "x$ax_pthread_ok" = "xyes"; then
+        threads=yes
+        :
+else
+        ax_pthread_ok=no
+        threads=no
+fi
+ac_ext=cpp
+ac_cpp='$CXXCPP $CPPFLAGS'
+ac_compile='$CXX -c $CXXFLAGS $CPPFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext >&5'
+ac_link='$CXX -o conftest$ac_exeext $CXXFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext $LIBS >&5'
+ac_compiler_gnu=$ac_cv_cxx_compiler_gnu
+
+
+  if test "$threads" = "yes"; then
+    save_LIBS="$LIBS"
+    LIBS="$PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS"
+    save_CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS"
+    CXXFLAGS="$PTHREAD_CFLAGS $save_CFLAGS"
+    { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for std::thread" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking for std::thread... " >&6; }
+if ${gdb_cv_cxx_std_thread+:} false; then :
+  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
+else
+  cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
+/* end confdefs.h.  */
+#include <thread>
+      void callback() { }
+int
+main ()
+{
+std::thread t(callback);
+  ;
+  return 0;
+}
+_ACEOF
+if ac_fn_cxx_try_compile "$LINENO"; then :
+  gdb_cv_cxx_std_thread=yes
+else
+  gdb_cv_cxx_std_thread=no
+fi
+rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext conftest.$ac_ext
+fi
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $gdb_cv_cxx_std_thread" >&5
+$as_echo "$gdb_cv_cxx_std_thread" >&6; }
+    LIBS="$save_LIBS"
+    CXXFLAGS="$save_CXXFLAGS"
+  fi
+  if test $gdb_cv_cxx_std_thread = yes; then
+
+$as_echo "#define CXX_STD_THREAD 1" >>confdefs.h
+
+  fi
+  ac_ext=c
+ac_cpp='$CPP $CPPFLAGS'
+ac_compile='$CC -c $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext >&5'
+ac_link='$CC -o conftest$ac_exeext $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext $LIBS >&5'
+ac_compiler_gnu=$ac_cv_c_compiler_gnu
+
+
     { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for sigsetjmp" >&5
 $as_echo_n "checking for sigsetjmp... " >&6; }
 if ${gdb_cv_func_sigsetjmp+:} false; then :
diff --git a/gdb/gdbsupport/common.m4 b/gdb/gdbsupport/common.m4
index 471d705..bc35c0e 100644
--- a/gdb/gdbsupport/common.m4
+++ b/gdb/gdbsupport/common.m4
@@ -37,6 +37,32 @@
 
   AC_CHECK_DECLS([strerror, strstr])
 
+  # Check for std::thread.  This does not work on some platforms, like
+  # mingw and DJGPP.
+  AC_LANG_PUSH([C++])
+  AX_PTHREAD([threads=yes], [threads=no])
+  if test "$threads" = "yes"; then
+    save_LIBS="$LIBS"
+    LIBS="$PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS"
+    save_CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS"
+    CXXFLAGS="$PTHREAD_CFLAGS $save_CFLAGS"
+    AC_CACHE_CHECK([for std::thread],
+		   gdb_cv_cxx_std_thread,
+		   [AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM(
+    [[#include <thread>
+      void callback() { }]],
+    [[std::thread t(callback);]])],
+				  gdb_cv_cxx_std_thread=yes,
+				  gdb_cv_cxx_std_thread=no)])
+    LIBS="$save_LIBS"
+    CXXFLAGS="$save_CXXFLAGS"
+  fi
+  if test $gdb_cv_cxx_std_thread = yes; then
+    AC_DEFINE(CXX_STD_THREAD, 1,
+	      [Define to 1 if std::thread works.])
+  fi
+  AC_LANG_POP
+
   dnl Check if sigsetjmp is available.  Using AC_CHECK_FUNCS won't
   dnl do since sigsetjmp might only be defined as a macro.
 AC_CACHE_CHECK([for sigsetjmp], gdb_cv_func_sigsetjmp,
