Re: Thread-safe configuration option appears to misfunction

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Thread-safe configuration option appears to misfunction
Date: 2003-08-04 16:30:32
Message-ID: 200308041630.h74GUWo21931@candle.pha.pa.us
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We decided to make separate thread/nonthread libraries if the threading
requires any special flags --- we haven't done that yet, and only
configure controls it.

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Larry Rosenman wrote:
>
>
> --On Monday, August 04, 2003 17:54:41 +0200 Peter Eisentraut
> <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>
> > Bruce Momjian writes:
> >
> >> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> > Is it intended that libpq is always compiled with the so-called
> >> > "thread-safe" compiler option, regardless of whether I used
> >> > --enable-thread-thing?
> >>
> >> It certainly should not be doing that, but my OS has no thread flags, so
> >> I am not seeing it here. What exactly do you see?
> >
> > It's using -D_REENTRANT etc. (linux template) when compiling libpq.
> I think we WANT to do that for libpq so it can be used in a threaded app,
> since there
> is no libc_r on Linux to the best of my knowledge.
>
> I intend that to happen on UnixWare as well.
>
> LER
>
>
>
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