Re: [HACKERS] ECPG thread-safety

On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 13:44, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Rod Taylor wrote:
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> > On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 13:06, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> > > > On Friday 28 March 2003 21:45, you wrote:
> > > > > For testing the library, I think it is enough to init an thread attr. like
> > > > > pthread_init_attr, that should be enough to test header and library.
> > > >
> > > > And compiler flags, I forgot.. -pthread on freeBSD/gcc and -D_REENTRANT on
> > > > linux at least. FreeBSD needs _THREAD_SAFE as well IIRC.
> > >
> > > Are you saying FreeBSD actually has a -pthread compiler flag?  And Linux
> > > needs REENTRANT.  We can do that.  Here is an updated patch.  Of course,
> > > I need to run autoconf too.
> >
> > If I'm not mistaken, you use -lpthread on FreeBSD 4.x, and -lc_r on
> > FreeBSD 5.x.
>
> Thanks.  Patch updated and attached.  Are there any FreeBSD 3.X machines
> still around that have pthread.h?

You're more likely to run into a 2.x BSD box than a 3.x one :) Early
releases of 4.x were unusually good and very pain free for an upgrade
from 3.x.

I couldn't tell you about 3.x as I never did anything outside of
installing ports.
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Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>

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