Russ Allbery writes:
> Here's an attempt at that. I'm not sure if this says everything that
> needs to be said, but I'm not sure what else to say.
> I considered saying, as Kurt does above, that two libraries could be
> provided, one with thread support and one without, but this poses some
> se
On 04.07.2010 10:42, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 12:26:40PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -7225,10 +7225,10 @@ INSTALL = install -s # (or use strip on the files in
debian/tmp)
for C files) will need to be compiled twice, for the nor
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 10:20:43AM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>
> Hm. There is a small risk that the above will be interpreted to mean
> that e.g. pthreads should be enabled if supported by the library, but
> that is not always the best solution -- consider if a library supports
> native linki
Russ Allbery writes:
>>
>>Libraries should be built with threading support and to be
>>thread-safe if the library supports this.
>>
>
> Yes, that's what I'm proposing -- at a guess, you may have misread the
> diff?
>
>>> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
>>> index
Simon Josefsson writes:
> I don't think it should reference _REENTRANT any more for modern
> GNU/Linux system like Debian.
I think I may not have provided enough context, but indeed, that's the
point of this bug and my proposed patch.
> Thus, I would suggest simply saying this:
>
>
Russ Allbery writes:
> Russ Allbery writes:
>> Kurt Roeckx writes:
>
>>> So it looks to me that _REENTRANT is only used to make some functions
>>> like getlogin_r available.
>
>> I believe that's correct, and the discussion at the last DebConf reached
>> the same conclusion. I think this bit i
On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 12:26:40PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -7225,10 +7225,10 @@ INSTALL = install -s # (or use strip on the files in
> debian/tmp)
>for C files) will need to be compiled twice, for the normal
>case.
>
Russ Allbery writes:
> Kurt Roeckx writes:
>> So it looks to me that _REENTRANT is only used to make some functions
>> like getlogin_r available.
> I believe that's correct, and the discussion at the last DebConf reached
> the same conclusion. I think this bit in Policy is obsolete. I already
Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So it looks to me that _REENTRANT is only used to make some functions
> like getlogin_r available.
I believe that's correct, and the discussion at the last DebConf reached
the same conclusion. I think this bit in Policy is obsolete. I already
closed a L
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 08:32:44AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:22:10PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Package: debian-policy
> > Version: 3.7.3.0
> > Severity: normal
> > You must specify the gcc option `-D_REENTRANT' when building a library
> > (either static or
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 06:27:44PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> _REENTRANT. If a library can be build to either support threads or
> not, it should be compiled to support threads. It might also want to
That's what I'd always understood the intent of this requirement to be -
it was that way becau
Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 08:23:19AM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>>
>> Thanks. But does LinuxThreads need -D_REENTRANT today? The links to
>> the gnulib list I gave suggested that it isn't necessary, but without
>> knowing exactly what to test it is dif
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 08:23:19AM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>
> Thanks. But does LinuxThreads need -D_REENTRANT today? The links to
> the gnulib list I gave suggested that it isn't necessary, but without
> knowing exactly what to test it is difficult to know for sure.
I think that testing
Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 09:28:03AM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:22:10PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
>> >> Package: debian-policy
>> >> Version: 3.7.3.0
>> >> Severity: normal
>> >>
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 09:28:03AM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:22:10PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> >> Package: debian-policy
> >> Version: 3.7.3.0
> >> Severity: normal
> >>
> >> You must specify the gcc option `-D_RE
Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:22:10PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
>> Package: debian-policy
>> Version: 3.7.3.0
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> You must specify the gcc option `-D_REENTRANT' when building a library
>> (either static or shared) to make the li
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:22:10PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.7.3.0
> Severity: normal
>
> You must specify the gcc option `-D_REENTRANT' when building a library
> (either static or shared) to make the library compatible with
> LinuxThreads.
>
> A
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.7.3.0
Severity: normal
You must specify the gcc option `-D_REENTRANT' when building a library
(either static or shared) to make the library compatible with
LinuxThreads.
AFAIK we don't use linuxthreads anymore, and I checked a few libraries and
fai
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