Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 02:11:25PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: >> Policy 10.2 says we must compile shared libraries with -D_REENTRANT: >> >>> You must specify the gcc option -D_REENTRANT when building a library >>> (either static or shared) to make the library compatible with >>> LinuxThreads. >> However, LinuxThreads has been superseeded by NPTL. Is this still necessary? > I think Michael Kerrisk of man-pages upstream may have wondered the > same thing?
Yes, as far as I've ever known (but my knowledge of requirements on early Linux is thin), "cc -pthread" is sufficient, since it is equivalent to "cc -lpthread -D_REENTRANT" Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 Want to help with man page maintenance? Grab the latest tarball at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages/ read the HOWTOHELP file and grep the source files for 'FIXME'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
