Thread safety and libxml2
Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>
From: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>
To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2009-12-30T17:55:21Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
We got an interesting report on the testers list today: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-testers/2009-12/msg00000.php Basically, configure failed on their OpenBSD system because thread safety is on but the libxml2 wasn't compiled with threaded support: http://xmlsoft.org/threads.html Disabling either feature (no --with-libxml or --disable-thread-safety) gives a working build. I wonder if it's worthwhile to document this coupling between thread safety and libxml2 in either http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/install-procedure.html or even the release notes. It seems quite likely to bite someone else again the future. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support greg@2ndQuadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.com