Re: threads stuff/UnixWare

On Wed, 12 May 2004, Larry Rosenman wrote:

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> --On Wednesday, May 12, 2004 14:14:30 -0300 "Marc G. Fournier"
> <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
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> > On Wed, 12 May 2004, Larry Rosenman wrote:
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> >> I'd LIKE to be able to have PG wrappers for those functions, and have
> >> the first invocation of them look via dlsym() for the real ones, and if
> >> they are NOT there, use fake functions that assume we are NOT threaded.
> >
> > Wouldn't it be easier to have a #define?
> >
> > Correct me if I'm wrong here, but the problem is that we are expecting
> > thread functinos to be called x_, while Unixware defines them as pthread_,
> > right? so make Unixware specific #defines that map x_ to pthread_ ...
> No, we are expecting them to have pthread_*.
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> On UnixWare, to get the pthread_* functions, you need to invoke a compiler
> option (-Kpthread), to cause libpthread to be linked in.
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> Since libpq.so now REQUIRES the function, we need to either:
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> 1) force ANY program that uses libpq to be compiled/linked with -Kpthread

Ummm, shouldn't that be added to the port specific Makefile?

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