build: Use AX_PTHREAD to detect pthreads

NOTE: This is a candidate for the 9.0 branch.

Reviewed-by: Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com>
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index ef2455b..49cdb82 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 AC_INIT([Mesa], [9.1.0],
     [https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mesa])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([bin])
+AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
 AC_CANONICAL_HOST
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign])
 
@@ -499,6 +500,16 @@
 dnl See if posix_memalign is available
 AC_CHECK_FUNC([posix_memalign], [DEFINES="$DEFINES -DHAVE_POSIX_MEMALIGN"])
 
+dnl signbit() is a macro in glibc's math.h, so AC_CHECK_FUNC fails. To handle
+dnl this, use AC_CHECK_DECLS and fallback to AC_CHECK_FUNC in case it fails.
+AC_CHECK_DECLS([signbit],[],
+               AC_CHECK_FUNC([signbit],[],
+                             AC_MSG_ERROR([could not find signbit()])),
+               [#include <math.h>])
+
+dnl Check for pthreads
+AX_PTHREAD
+
 dnl SELinux awareness.
 AC_ARG_ENABLE([selinux],
     [AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-selinux],