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From:
Dave Mitchell
Date:
July 25, 2009 07:14
Subject:
Re: any 5.10.1 showstoppers?
Message ID:
20090725141349.GZ4204@iabyn.com
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 07:58:50AM -0600, The Doctor wrote:
> For the BSD/OS hints file  , please place
> 
> # This script UU/usethreads.cbu will get 'called-back' by Configure
> # after it has prompted the user for whether to use threads.
> cat > UU/usethreads.cbu <<'EOCBU'
> case "$usethreads" in
> $define|true|[yY]*)
>         case "$osvers" in
>         3.*|4.*)        ccflags="-D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE -pthread $ccflags"
>             ;;
>         *)   cat <<EOM >&4  

By "place", I assume you mean add " -D_THREAD_SAFE -pthread" to
ccflags in the existing hints/bsdos.sh file? (A diff or patch is much to be
prefered here than just quotiong a chuinck of code).

So, what effect would this change have? That is to say, I'm looking for a
brief description I can use for a commit message.





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