Re: enable-thread-safety defaults?

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> Let me be more verbose: I would assume that we want the configure
> defaults to be the same on all platforms. We fail by default, for
> example, if zlib and readline are not there, but you can turn them off
> explicitly. If we turn thread-safety on by default, we will/should fail
> if thread-safety is not supported, requiring the user to turn it off
> explicitly. If enough platforms don't support thread-safety, this could
> become annoying.
>
> I don't have a good overview over how many platforms would be affected,
> and I could in general support changing the default, but I'm just laying
> down one possible constraint.
>
>

Well, if we turn it on by default maybe the buildfarm will tell us who
the major culprits are :-)

cheers

andrew