Factor out thread model detection with new `GCC_AC_THREAD_MODEL` macro
This macro deduplicates the
$CC -v 2>&1 | sed -n 's/^Thread model: //p'
check that was occurring in various runtime libs.
Additionally, as a bit of an Easter egg, this also allows overriding
what the compiler would return by setting the
`gcc_cv_target_thread_file` cache variable first. I admit that it is in
fact this Easter egg that led me to write the patch. The use-case for it
is for making multilib builds where the library sets do not all share
the same thread model easier. See also `THREAD_MODEL_SPEC` for more
about the varying thread models use-case.
Arguably one could could try to define on `THREAD_MODEL_SPEC` on more
platforms (besides e.g. AIX) but the ramifications of this are a bit
unclear. Setting `gcc_cv_target_thread_file` directly is a "low tech"
solution that will work for now for sure. Of course, since setting a
cache variable like this a hacky trick, I will not expect this to be at
all stable/guaranteed to work, going forward.
Thanks to Arsen who on IRC discussed these things with me, including in
particular making it a cache var not `--with-model` flag, to not
prematurely foster expectations that this is stable.