FreeTDS Development Group

[John Gilmore-Baldwin <jbaldwin AT theolympian.com>]

FWIW, gethostbyname() is threadsafe on Mac OS X 10.2 and later.

<http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2053.html>

I do have ODBC installed because OS X installs it for you. But I have 
done zero setup on it. I have no idea how you account for that. Apple's 
done almost no documentation on it. (And "almost" is being generous, 
unless I'm mistaken.)

Here's a snippet from the configure output (with thread safety enabled):

checking threadsafety... enabled
checking for which type of gethostbyname_r... no
checking for which type of getservbyname_r... no
checking for which type of gethostbyaddr_r... no
checking for which type of getpwuid_r... five
checking for which type of localtime_r... struct

Hope this is of some help. Sorry I'm not doing more analysis myself. 
I'll poke at it as I can.

John

On Dec 27, 2003, at 3:21 PM, James K. Lowden wrote:

> The threadsafe and odbc options are supposed to be autodetecting.  We 
> seek
> out functions and test them in the configure script, and, if they 
> work, we
> compile against them.  I guess the threadsafe test finds threadsafe
> functions, but we don't use them correctly (or something).  And I 
> thought
> we were done.  ;-)
>
> Is it the case that you have ODBC installed but not set up (because you
> don't use it)?
>
> I should probably make that clearer in the UG.