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

--On Thursday, March 18, 2004 23:03:16 -0500 Bruce Momjian
<pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Larry Rosenman wrote:
>> On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>>
>> > I attempted(!) to compile up CVS Head, and if you
>> > --enable-thread-safety, you need to include the THREADS stuff to cc:
>> >
>> > gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/home/ler/pg-dev/pgsql/src/port'
>> > cc -O -Kinline initdb.o -L../../../src/interfaces/libpq -lpq
>> > -L../../../src/port -L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-R/usr/local/pgsql/lib -lz
>> > -lreadline -ltermcap -lresolv -lgen -lld -lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm
>> > -lpgport -o initdb
>> > Undefined first referenced
>> > symbol in file
>> > pthread_getspecific libpq.so
>> > pthread_key_create libpq.so
>> > pthread_once libpq.so
>> > pthread_setspecific libpq.so
>> > UX:ld: ERROR: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to initdb
>> > gmake[3]: *** [initdb] Error 1
>> I bring this up on PGHACKERS because unixware may not be the only
>> place we have to use the threads flags.
>>
>> What is the concensus of the community?
>
> I tried removing the libpq link for initdb and got:
>
> (3) gmake
> gmake -C ../../../src/interfaces/libpq all
> gmake[1]: Entering directory
> `/usr/var/local/src/gen/pgsql/CURRENT/pgsql/src/interfaces/libpq'
> gmake[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/var/local/src/gen/pgsql/CURRENT/pgsql/src/interfaces/libpq'
> gmake -C ../../../src/port all
> gmake[1]: Entering directory
> `/usr/var/local/src/gen/pgsql/CURRENT/pgsql/src/port'
> gmake[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/var/local/src/gen/pgsql/CURRENT/pgsql/src/port'
> gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
> -Wmissing-declarations -O1 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
> -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align initdb.o
> -L../../../src/port -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/contrib/lib
> -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/pgsql/lib -O1 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
> -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -lssl -lcrypto -lz
> -lreadline -ltermcap -lgetopt -lcompat -lipc -ldl -lm -lutil -lpgport
> -o initdb
> initdb.o: In function `get_encoding_id':
> initdb.o(.text+0x739): undefined reference to `pg_char_to_encoding'
> initdb.o(.text+0x74b): undefined reference to `pg_valid_server_encoding'
> initdb.o: In function `trapsig':
> initdb.o(.text+0x2212): undefined reference to `pqsignal'
> initdb.o: In function `main':
> initdb.o(.text+0x2e69): undefined reference to `pqsignal'
> initdb.o(.text+0x2e7b): undefined reference to `pqsignal'
> initdb.o(.text+0x2e8a): undefined reference to `pqsignal'
> initdb.o(.text+0x2e9c): undefined reference to `pqsignal'
> initdb.o(.text+0x2ea8): more undefined references to `pqsignal' follow
> gmake: *** [initdb] Error 1
>
> 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.

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