In article <201805010049.w410nejj025...@lothlorien.nfbcal.org>, Brian Buhrow <buh...@nfbcal.org> wrote: > > Threading works fine under NetBSD-5, the problem is sendmail's use of >the _res structure for DNS queries.
It should be fixed not to do that :-) > What's unclear to me, is if the problem is that while the comment says >you don't need to arbitrarily link all programs against libpthread on >NetBSD-5, you do if they use thread_create or thread_destroy. My first >thought was to exclude NetBSD-5 from this requirement, but it occurs to me >that you don't always know if a program uses thread_create or not. >On second thought, however, it looks like this stanza links all sources >built under NetBSd, from NetBSD-3 forward, with libpthread unconditionally. >Is that really the correct behavior? It is not desirable, but this is how it works now. christos
