Re: Thread-safe configuration option appears to

--On Monday, August 04, 2003 12:50:31 -0400 Bruce Momjian
<pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Larry Rosenman wrote:
>>
>>
>> --On Monday, August 04, 2003 12:30:32 -0400 Bruce Momjian
>> <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > We decided to make separate thread/nonthread libraries if the threading
>> > requires any special flags --- we haven't done that yet, and only
>> > configure controls it.
>> That will be a POLA (principle of least astonishment) violation on
>> UnixWare.
>
> When we have the capability to do dual library builds, we might have a
> way to specify a threading flag that will apply to the main libpq and
> not create a libpq_r. If it is a good flag, can we use it in the
> template file for all compiling?
I **THINK** so. What I'm thinking of is -D_REENTRANT for UnixWare
especially for libpq.

the --with-threads would cause ecpg to be compiled/linked as -lpthread in
addition to
-D_REENTRANT

LER

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