Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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? > Some googling shows that _REENTRANT is necessary for POSIX threading, so > it should be still needed. This just came up at DebConf, and our belief is that it's only needed to get prototypes for a few functions that aren't prototyped otherwise. That would imply that if your software is building without undeclared function warnings, you don't need it. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
