Re: threads stuff/UnixWare

--On Wednesday, May 12, 2004 15:02:30 -0300 "Marc G. Fournier"
<scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:

> On Wed, 12 May 2004, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> --On Wednesday, May 12, 2004 14:14:30 -0300 "Marc G. Fournier"
>> <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
>>
>> > On Wed, 12 May 2004, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>> >
>> >> 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_*.
>>
>> On UnixWare, to get the pthread_* functions, you need to invoke a
>> compiler option (-Kpthread), to cause libpthread to be linked in.
>>
>> Since libpq.so now REQUIRES the function, we need to either:
>>
>> 1) force ANY program that uses libpq to be compiled/linked with -Kpthread
>
> Ummm, shouldn't that be added to the port specific Makefile?
See my reply to Tom. It forces ALL libpq using programs to be
linked with -Kpthread, which was deemed unacceptable.

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