FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:00:05 +0000
Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com> wrote:

> > In file included from ../../../include/tds.h:54:0,
> >                  from ../../../src/replacements/getpassarg.c:29:
> > ../../../include/tdsthread.h:216:2: error: #error Condition not
> > supported! *** Error code 1
> >
> > Suggestions?
> >
> > --jkl
> >
> 
> Ehm.... disable --thread-safe? The other option is to write
> conditional code for no thread environment. Are you sure you are never
> using thread?

Let me try answering again, now that I've had some coffee....

I haven't investigated it carefully, but as of NetBSD 5.0 FreeTDS
couldn't be compiled with threads enabled.  It's probably (?) because
of some autoconf snafu.  I am planning to upgrade, and it might go
away.  But I doubt I'm the only user who compiles without threading
support.  

I've never cared.  I don't like multithreaded programming, and I don't
understand why an I/O library should support it!  It's not as if you
can process rows faster with multiple threads; the server is always the
bottleneck.  

So, yes, "never" is pretty much where I stand re threads.  :-)   I also
think there must be other platforms -- and maybe even other programmers
-- that can't use or can't stand threads.  

> The other problem is that some test require thread (they test thread
> behaviour).

Yes, but that's easy to work around, no?  Wrap the whole thing in a #if
that tests whether threading is enabled.  What more is needed?  

Regards, 

--jkl