Re: Thread-safe configuration option appears to

--On Monday, August 04, 2003 13:11:45 -0400 Bruce Momjian 
<pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:

> Larry Rosenman wrote:
>> >> > 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.
>> >> That will be a POLA (principle of least astonishment) violation on
>> >> UnixWare.
>> >
>> > When we have the capability to do dual library builds, we might have a
>> > way to specify a threading flag that will apply to the main libpq and
>> > not create a libpq_r.  If it is a good flag, can we use it in the
>> > template file for all compiling?
>> I **THINK** so.  What I'm thinking of is -D_REENTRANT for UnixWare
>> especially for libpq.
>>
>> the --with-threads would cause ecpg to be compiled/linked as -lpthread
>> in  addition to
>> -D_REENTRANT
>
> Nope, we are not going to link with -lpthread unless it is enabled in
> configure.
Right.  but libpq should be built with -D_REENTRANT on UnixWare regardless 
of the
--with-threads.

Read what I said above.





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