Re: autoconf, sendmail, and pthreads

[Ganesan Rajagopal]

>>>>> "Bob" == Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 address@hidden wrote:
>> 
>> -pthread -- is for gcc

> Support for -pthread in gcc is non-standard.  It is not supported by
> the standard GNU compiler (e.g. 2.95.2) when configured and compiled
> from distributed sources.

> The portable way to support POSIX threads for SunOS 5.6 and later is
> to add -D_REENTRANT to the compilation defines, and -lpthread to the
> libraries. Use of -lposix4 is optional, and is not necessarily
> required in order to use -lpthread.  See the threads(3t) manual page.

This is correct. -lposix4 is needed only if you need sched_yield() or
POSIX 1003.1b semaphores. 

Ganesan


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