Re: Use of $(THREAD_CFLAGS) in CPPFLAGS

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Actually, the most common THREAD_CFLAGS is -pthread, used by Solaris,
> > OSF, and FreeBSD 4.X. Only Linux uses -D flags for threading.
>
> So is -pthread a compile-time or link-time flag?
>
> If we need both THREAD_CPPFLAGS and THREAD_CFLAGS then let's go ahead
> and invent both.

I just did a 'man gcc' on our PostgreSQL FreeBSD server and read:

-pthread
Link a user-threaded process against libc_r instead of libc. Ob-
jects linked into user-threaded processes should be compiled
with -D_THREAD_SAFE.

so it seems it is a link flag, and they have a compile flag no one told
me about. I already have it configured as a compile flag. Let me fix
that. I am working on the thread test program so I will commit it all
at once.

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