Re: UnixWare/CVS Tip/initdb.c needs to use threads flags...

Larry Rosenman wrote:
> > I thought that once you include libpthread in libpq, that you don't have
> > to mention it again then you use libpq.  Is your platform different
> > somehow in this regard?
> >
> > I seem to remember this problem with libcrypt and libpq.  Is this the
> > same problem?
> >
> > I see that initdb is just the first of many /bin programs to be
> > compiled, so if we have to add the thread lib, we will have to do it for
> > all the bin programs.  Yikes.  Why wasn't this a problem for 7.4?
> 7.4 had initdb as a Shell Script.
> the 7.4.x libpq didn't have any pthread_* references in it, that I see
> on my box.

Ah, yes.  We added the thread-local storage to handle SIGPIPE.  The
problem is that initdb isn't the only place.  If you comment out initdb
from the Makefile in src/bin, does the next make fail too?  I bet it
does.

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