Re: -D_REENTRANT and debian policy

2007-03-02 Thread Gabor Gombas
> I'd love it if someone could investigate just what this means with a > modern glibc (i.e., not LinuxThreads) and whether it's still actually > necessary. At the least, there should really be a footnote in Policy > explaining why this is needed or pointing to some document about it. According to

Re: -D_REENTRANT and debian policy

2007-02-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 08:32:08PM -0800, Michael Kerrisk wrote: >> IIRC, cc -pthread == cc -D_REENTRANT -lpthread >> Why does Debian require _REENTRANT? > It's just required for library comipilation, presumably so that threaded > applications don't br

-D_REENTRANT and debian policy

2007-02-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 08:32:08PM -0800, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > Justin Pryzby wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 11:27:28AM -0800, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > >> Justin Pryzby wrote: > >>> On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 03:47:35PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > tag 408304 patch > thanks > >>> I n