Re: threading and FreeBSD

Something odd going on with the list - I never saw the original that Chris is
replying to.

Philip.

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 12:22 pm, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> I've been doing all my freebsd/alpha build with --enable-thread-safety for
> weeks and I haven't seen any compile or running problems...
>
> Configure doesn't see it tho:
>
> checking pthread.h usability... yes
> checking pthread.h presence... yes
> checking for pthread.h... yes
> checking for strerror_r... yes
> checking for getpwuid_r... no
> checking for gethostbyname_r... no
>
> Chris
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
> To: "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 6:43 AM
> Subject: [HACKERS] threading and FreeBSD
>
> > Our current template/freebsd has:
> >
> > CFLAGS='-pipe'
> >
> > case $host_cpu in
> >   alpha*)   CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -O" ;;
> > esac
> >
> > SUPPORTS_THREADS=yes
> > case $host_os in
> > freebsd2*|freebsd3*|freebsd4*)
> > THREAD_CFLAGS="-pthread"
> > NEED_REENTRANT_FUNC_NAMES=yes
> > ;;
> > *)
> > THREAD_LIBS="-lc_r"
> > NEED_REENTRANT_FUNC_NAMES=yes
> > ;;
> > esac
> >
> > Now, this says FreeBSD needs reentrant named functions for all versions.
> >
> > However, our main server (4.8-STABLE FreeBSD) doesn't have any mention
> > of getpwuid_r().  Would some FreeBSD folks test the
> > --enable-thread-safey and let us know how things work?
> >
> > --
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