Re: CVS tip compiler error with --enable-thread-safety - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: CVS tip compiler error with --enable-thread-safety
Date
Msg-id 200405311620.i4VGK8c03278@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: CVS tip compiler error with --enable-thread-safety  (Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar@frodo.hserus.net>)
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Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> On Sunday 30 May 2004 19:37, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > The relevant configure messages read
> > > -------------
> > > checking whether pthreads work without any flags... no
> > > checking whether pthreads work with -Kthread... no
> > > checking whether pthreads work with -kthread... no
> > > checking for the pthreads library -llthread... no
> > > checking whether pthreads work with -pthread... yes
> > > -------------
> > >
> > > Here is relevant portion of src/Makefile.global
> > >
> > > -------------
> > > PTHREAD_CFLAGS        = -pthread -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE
> > > -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS
> > > PTHREAD_LIBS        =
> > > LIBS = -lz -lreadline -ltermcap -lcrypt -lresolv -lnsl -ldl -lm
> > > -------------
> > >
> > > It worked after I manually added -lpthread to LIBS and did a make
> > > clean;make
> >
> > OK, I have applied the following patch which should fix it.  Turns out I
> > wasn't using the thread libs as part of library creation.
> 
> I updated anoncvs, the patch in src/port/Makefile is there but initdb still 
> fails to compile.
> 
> I suspect this is because in Makefile.global PTHREAD_LIBS is still blank. I 
> need to add -lpthread these to get stuff working. However I could not figure 
> out what create PTHREAD_LIBS in Makefile.global.

Well, that certainly is strange.  Config.log should show checks for a
variety of thread flags, and it should add any ones that your compiler
supports.  I would look in there for a cause or email me the whole file
offlist.

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