Brad Nicholson wrote: > >OK, I assume you used --enable-thread-safety in configure. > > > Correct. > > >This should > >have added some PTHREAD link flags to your libpq build, and those > >settings should have followed the libpq library into your pg_ctl link > >line. > > > >Would you look in your Makefile.global for PTHREAD_* settings and report > >those. The second question is why saying those libraries are needed by > >libpq is not passing down to uses of libpq, like in pg_ctl. > > > > > > PTHREAD_CFLAGS = -pthread -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE > -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS > PTHREAD_LIBS = -lpthread -lpthreads
OK, great. Can I see the link line that creates libpq? It should contain the PTHREAD_LIBS flags. If it does, the next question is why AIX doesn't pass those flags. Oh, I think I see the cause. I now remember from config/acx_pthread.m4: # More AIX lossage: must compile with cc_r AC_CHECK_PROG(PTHREAD_CC, cc_r, cc_r, ${CC}) Seems AIX wants a special _compiler_ to be used whenever threading is involved, even by a linked-in library. I didn't implement using PTHREAD_CC because there was just too much code disruption for threading on one platform. I wonder if we should just disable threading on AIX. Let me ask --- if you change the CC line in Makefile.global to cc_r, does everything build OK? That might be a clean solution because the change could be made in one place. Of course this would mean the backend would also be compiled using cc_r and I have no idea of the effect. Of course, the idea that any use of libpq has to use cc_r is going to make building things complex without some adjustments. Also, what version of AIX are you using? Are other AIX folks having thread build problems? -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])