Re: [HACKERS] UnixWare/CVS Tip/initdb.c needs to use threads

From: Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] UnixWare/CVS Tip/initdb.c needs to use threads
Date: 2004-03-19 13:39:18
Message-ID: 22970000.1079703558@lerlaptop.lerctr.org
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[moved to -patches because of the patch]

--On Friday, March 19, 2004 08:01:53 -0500 Bruce Momjian
<pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Larry Rosenman wrote:
>> > I thought that once you include libpthread in libpq, that you don't
>> > have to mention it again then you use libpq. Is your platform
>> > different somehow in this regard?
>> >
>> > I seem to remember this problem with libcrypt and libpq. Is this the
>> > same problem?
>> >
>> > I see that initdb is just the first of many /bin programs to be
>> > compiled, so if we have to add the thread lib, we will have to do it
>> > for all the bin programs. Yikes. Why wasn't this a problem for 7.4?
>> 7.4 had initdb as a Shell Script.
>> the 7.4.x libpq didn't have any pthread_* references in it, that I see
>> on my box.
>
> Ah, yes. We added the thread-local storage to handle SIGPIPE. The
> problem is that initdb isn't the only place. If you comment out initdb
> from the Makefile in src/bin, does the next make fail too? I bet it
> does.

Apparently, because of the way the wrappers work, having -lpthread on
libpq.so does NOT add it to the NEEDED list.

I made the following patch, and all compiles now:
Index: src/bin/initdb/Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/bin/initdb/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.35
diff -u -r1.35 Makefile
--- src/bin/initdb/Makefile 23 Dec 2003 21:56:20 -0000 1.35
+++ src/bin/initdb/Makefile 19 Mar 2004 13:35:19 -0000
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
all: submake-libpq submake-libpgport initdb

initdb: $(OBJS) $(libpq_builddir)/libpq.a
- $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(OBJS) $(libpq) $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS) -o $@
+ $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(OBJS) $(libpq) $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS) $(THREAD_LIBS) -o $@

install: all installdirs
$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) initdb$(X) $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/initdb$(X)
Index: src/bin/pg_dump/Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/bin/pg_dump/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.44
diff -u -r1.44 Makefile
--- src/bin/pg_dump/Makefile 7 Feb 2004 07:20:12 -0000 1.44
+++ src/bin/pg_dump/Makefile 19 Mar 2004 13:35:19 -0000
@@ -25,13 +25,13 @@
all: submake-libpq submake-libpgport submake-backend pg_dump pg_restore
pg_dumpall

pg_dump: pg_dump.o common.o pg_dump_sort.o $(OBJS)
$(libpq_builddir)/libpq.a
- $(CC) $(CFLAGS) pg_dump.o common.o pg_dump_sort.o $(OBJS) $(EXTRA_OBJS)
$(libpq) $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS) -o $@
+ $(CC) $(CFLAGS) pg_dump.o common.o pg_dump_sort.o $(OBJS) $(EXTRA_OBJS)
$(libpq) $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS) $(THREAD_LIBS) -o $@

pg_restore: pg_restore.o $(OBJS) $(libpq_builddir)/libpq.a
- $(CC) $(CFLAGS) pg_restore.o $(OBJS) $(EXTRA_OBJS) $(libpq) $(LDFLAGS)
$(LIBS) -o $@
+ $(CC) $(CFLAGS) pg_restore.o $(OBJS) $(EXTRA_OBJS) $(libpq) $(LDFLAGS)
$(LIBS) $(THREAD_LIBS) -o $@

pg_dumpall: pg_dumpall.o dumputils.o $(libpq_builddir)/libpq.a
- $(CC) $(CFLAGS) pg_dumpall.o dumputils.o $(EXTRA_OBJS) $(libpq)
$(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS) -o $@
+ $(CC) $(CFLAGS) pg_dumpall.o dumputils.o $(EXTRA_OBJS) $(libpq)
$(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS) $(THREAD_LIBS) -o $@

.PHONY: submake-backend
submake-backend:
Index: src/bin/pg_encoding/Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/bin/pg_encoding/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -u -r1.16 Makefile
--- src/bin/pg_encoding/Makefile 29 Nov 2003 19:52:05 -0000 1.16
+++ src/bin/pg_encoding/Makefile 19 Mar 2004 13:35:19 -0000
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
all: submake-libpq submake-libpgport pg_encoding

pg_encoding: $(OBJS)
- $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $^ $(libpq) $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS) -o $@
+ $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $^ $(libpq) $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS) $(THREAD_LIBS) -o $@

install: all installdirs
$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) pg_encoding$(X) $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/pg_encoding$(X)
Index: src/bin/pgtclsh/Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/bin/pgtclsh/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.43
diff -u -r1.43 Makefile
--- src/bin/pgtclsh/Makefile 19 Dec 2003 11:54:25 -0000 1.43
+++ src/bin/pgtclsh/Makefile 19 Mar 2004 13:35:20 -0000
@@ -33,10 +33,10 @@
all: submake $(PROGRAMS)

pgtclsh: pgtclAppInit.o
- $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $^ $(libpgtcl) $(libpq) $(TCL_LIB_SPEC) $(TCL_LIBS)
$(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS) -o $@
+ $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $^ $(libpgtcl) $(libpq) $(TCL_LIB_SPEC) $(TCL_LIBS)
$(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS) $(THREAD_LIBS) -o $@

pgtksh: pgtkAppInit.o
- $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $^ $(libpgtcl) $(libpq) $(TK_LIB_SPEC) $(TK_LIBS)
$(TCL_LIB_SPEC) $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS) -o $@
+ $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $^ $(libpgtcl) $(libpq) $(TK_LIB_SPEC) $(TK_LIBS)
$(TCL_LIB_SPEC) $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS) $(THREAD_LIBS) -o $@

.PHONY: submake
submake:
Index: src/bin/psql/Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/bin/psql/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.40
diff -u -r1.40 Makefile
--- src/bin/psql/Makefile 9 Mar 2004 19:47:05 -0000 1.40
+++ src/bin/psql/Makefile 19 Mar 2004 13:35:20 -0000
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
all: submake-libpq submake-libpgport psql

psql: $(OBJS) $(libpq_builddir)/libpq.a
- $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(OBJS) $(libpq) $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS) -o $@
+ $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(OBJS) $(libpq) $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS) $(THREAD_LIBS) -o $@

help.o: $(srcdir)/sql_help.h

Index: src/bin/scripts/Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/bin/scripts/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.25
diff -u -r1.25 Makefile
--- src/bin/scripts/Makefile 29 Nov 2003 19:52:07 -0000 1.25
+++ src/bin/scripts/Makefile 19 Mar 2004 13:35:20 -0000
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
all: submake-libpq submake-backend $(PROGRAMS)

%: %.o
- $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $^ $(libpq) $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS) -o $@
+ $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $^ $(libpq) $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS) $(THREAD_LIBS) -o $@

createdb: createdb.o common.o dumputils.o
$(top_builddir)/src/backend/parser/keywords.o
createlang: createlang.o common.o print.o mbprint.o
Index: src/template/unixware
===================================================================
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/template/unixware,v
retrieving revision 1.30
diff -u -r1.30 unixware
--- src/template/unixware 11 Feb 2004 21:44:06 -0000 1.30
+++ src/template/unixware 19 Mar 2004 13:35:21 -0000
@@ -24,5 +24,10 @@
THREAD_CPPFLAGS="-K pthread"
fi

-# tools/thread/thread_test must be run
+THREAD_SUPPORT=yes
THREAD_CPPFLAGS="$THREAD_CPPFLAGS -D_REENTRANT"
+STRERROR_THREADSAFE=yes
+GETPWUID_THREADSAFE=yes
+GETHOSTBYNAME_THREADSAFE=yes
+THREAD_LIBS='-lpthread'
+
Index: src/tools/fsync/Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/tools/fsync/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -r1.1 Makefile
--- src/tools/fsync/Makefile 18 Mar 2004 03:56:59 -0000 1.1
+++ src/tools/fsync/Makefile 19 Mar 2004 13:35:21 -0000
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
#
TARGET = test_fsync
XFLAGS =
-CFLAGS = -g -Wall
+CFLAGS = -O
LIBS =

$(TARGET) : test_fsync.o

--
Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler
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