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Date:      Fri, 23 Jan 2004 12:06:14 -0500
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Andrey Sharandakov <ash@azm.uz.ua>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make.conf
Message-ID:  <40115486.5030300@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <00a101c3e1d2$228948b0$1a86c2d9@ashway>
References:  <40113E8E.4040608@bis.midco.net> <005b01c3e1c8$be372660$1a86c2d9@ashway> <20040123165048.GA87436@xor.obsecurity.org> <00a101c3e1d2$228948b0$1a86c2d9@ashway>

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Andrey Sharandakov wrote:
> That's OK!
> 
> What does this option mean?
> NOLIBC_R  (re-entrant version of libc) - What is it?

libc is the basic C library which provides the routines expected by 
ANSI/POSIX.  A re-entrant version of a library is one that is thread-safe. 
LIBC_R is presumably required by programs which use POSIX threads, aka pthreads.

-- 
-Chuck



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