Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > The strange thing is that accoring to template/freebsd, libc_r was
> > _added_ in FreeBSD 5.0, while most OS are moving away from separate
> > threaded libs.
>
> The template is wrong. libc_r has existed in FreeBSD for quite a while,
> but your're not supposed to use it directly. Instead, you use the flag
> -pthread, which takes care of libc_r and possibly other things (possibly
> more things than we like?). In fact, if you specify -lc_r directly, then
> the compiler driver will also link in the normal libc, resulting in
> complete desaster.
How is the template wrong? The following code was gotten from a FreeBSD
user. Should the top case be used with all FreeBSD's?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
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