Hi All, The following patch fixes building PostgreSQL 7.4.2 under Sun (Sparc) Solaris 7 and 8 (possibly earlier and later versions, as well) with --enable-thread-safety.
The first addresses what would appear to be a coding error in thread.c. The second ensures the proper pthread function call semantics. Build tested using GCC 3.3.1 under Solaris 7 and 8. Tested with ancient version of Sun's commercial development package under Solaris 8. Note: I don't know that --enable-thread-safety actually *works* on these platforms. But the package now builds. Regards, Jim *** ./src/port/thread.c-orig Tue Mar 2 13:38:28 2004 --- ./src/port/thread.c Sun Mar 14 10:07:04 2004 *************** *** 186,192 **** * broken (well early POSIX draft) gethostbyname_r() which returns * 'struct hostent *' */ ! *result = gethostbyname_r(name, resbuf, buffer, buflen, herrno); return (*result == NULL) ? -1 : 0; #else --- 186,192 ---- * broken (well early POSIX draft) gethostbyname_r() which returns * 'struct hostent *' */ ! *result = gethostbyname_r(name, resultbuf, buffer, buflen, herrno); return (*result == NULL) ? -1 : 0; #else *** ./src/template/solaris-orig Wed Jan 7 23:21:20 2004 --- ./src/template/solaris Sun Mar 14 14:39:40 2004 *************** *** 12,19 **** THREAD_SUPPORT=yes NEED_REENTRANT_FUNCS=yes # 5.6 2003-09-13 if test "$GCC" = yes ! then THREAD_LIBS="-pthread" ! else THREAD_CPPFLAGS="-mt" THREAD_LIBS="-lpthread" fi --- 12,20 ---- THREAD_SUPPORT=yes NEED_REENTRANT_FUNCS=yes # 5.6 2003-09-13 if test "$GCC" = yes ! then THREAD_CPPFLAGS="-D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS" ! THREAD_LIBS="-pthread" ! else THREAD_CPPFLAGS="-mt -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS" THREAD_LIBS="-lpthread" fi ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org