Re: Thread-safe configuration option appears to - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Thread-safe configuration option appears to
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Msg-id 200308041711.h74HBjx26068@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Thread-safe configuration option appears to  (Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>)
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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.

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