Re: [xml] solaris and pthread library [patch]

[Petr Sumbera <petr sumbera oracle com>]

> > > >>  So it seems the safer option is to always link with libpthread.
> > > >>  Any drawback I miss here?
> May be better is to rewrite current test to be more portable.
> According to specs file on linux gcc with -pthread  add pthread library
> and define _REENTRANT.
>
> AX_PTHREAD is an existing macro distributed under GPL.  May be current
> test could be replaced to use this macro if there is no license issue.
>
> What could be used, on solaris for pthread support, instead link with
> library ?

As far as I can tell it's very similar to Linux.

> If compiler is gcc is enough to set -pthreads as compiler flag (CFLAGS)

Really not expert here. But it seems that:

- Older gcc will accepts '-pthreads'.
- Newer gcc (4.x) will accepts both '-pthreads' and '-pthread'.

> ? What about other compilers (Sun C? ) ?

Sun C is using -mt.

---threads(5)---

 -mt compiler option
     The -mt compiler option compiles and links for multithreaded
     code.  It  compiles  source files with -D_REENTRANT and aug-
     ments the set of support libraries properly.

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Petr