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Subject: Re: Why -D_THREAD_SAFE?
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Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk there is this:
> 
> .if ${OSVERSION} < 500016
> PTHREAD_CFLAGS= -D_THREAD_SAFE
> PTHREAD_LIBS=           -pthread
> .else
> PTHREAD_CFLAGS= -D_THREAD_SAFE
> PTHREAD_LIBS=           -lc_r
> .endif
> 
> 
> I understand that -pthread has been deprecated 
> in gcc in -CURRENT.  Why is -D_THREAD_SAFE
> needed?

It's not needed, but it isn't hurting anything either.
The ports team should probably remove it.

-- 
Dan Eischen