Re: 7.4.2 on Solaris 9 - Error - Mailing list pgsql-general

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Jan Wieck wrote:
>> Changing config.status, now that's what I call a quick and dirty hack.
>>
>> The attached diff against 7.4.2 incorporates Joe Conway's checks for
>> getqwuid_r() has 4/5 arguments with a pthread compile autoconf check
>> that I found a while back in the gnu autoconf archives.
>>
>> I think we should change alltogether to that pthread check.
>>
>
> Intersting.  Would this change require us to update to a newer version
> of autoconf?

works here with 2.53 and 2.57.


Jan

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>> Jan
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>> wespvp@syntegra.com wrote:
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>> > On 3/25/04 7:27 AM, "Jan Wieck" <JanWieck@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> One other problem I am looking into (and why I tried to compile with
>> >> thread safety in the first place) is that this somehow did not turn on
>> >> -D_REENTRANT in the CFLAGS for libpq. And that leads to libpq not using
>> >> the threadsafe definition of errno, leading to serious communication
>> >> trouble in the end (pqReadData() failing with ENOENT while the real
>> >> error is a harmless EAGAIN from a nonblocking recv()).
>> >
>> > This sounds like the problem I just solved late yesterday, except that I'm
>> > seeing it manifest itself in ecpglib with C programs build using ecpg. I had
>> > absolutely no error handling.  The error flag was never set.  I put some
>> > debug code into the various library functions and found it was setting the
>> > error code in sqlca - but in a different copy of sqlca than was active.
>> >
>> > The root problem turns out to be that configure is setting -pthread instead
>> > of -lpthread in config.status.  I manually changed the config.status line
>> >
>> >    s,@THREAD_LIBS@,-pthread,;t t
>> >
>> > To
>> >
>> >    s,@THREAD_LIBS@,-lpthread,;t t
>> >
>> > And everything appears to be working now.  I don't see -D_REENTRANT being
>> > set, but everything appears to work now.
>> >
>> > Let me know if this solves your test case also.
>> >
>> > Wes
>> >
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