Re: Thread-safe questions in configure

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I have two questions about the support for thread-safe clients in
> configure:
>
> configure sets NEED_REENTRANT_FUNC_NAMES=no, overwriting the template
> setting. Why?

Forgot to remove it when I moved the stuff to templates.

> The check for reentrant functions says:
>
> # Include special flags if threads are enabled _and_ if required for
> # threading on this platform. Some platforms have *_r functions but
> # their natively named funcs are threadsafe, and should be used instead.
>
> But the actual check does not check if "threads are enabled", only if it's
> required on the platform (which doesn't work -- see above).
>
> Is this some kind of transition state "to be fixed later"?

The only transition state is in my head. :-)

Patch attached and applied.

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