Re: On dropping -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE

[Simon Josefsson]

Sam Varshavchik <address@hidden> writes:

> Simon Josefsson writes:
>
>> My conclusion is that -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE is not needed on glibc
>> systems.  Does anyone know of other systems that needs these defines to
>> work properly?
>>
>> I'm inclined to remove the lines from configure.in.  If some other
>> system needs this to have working standard C/POSIX functions, we could
>> solve it via a gnulib module, I suppose.
>
> You don't even need to do that at all. If someone needs these symbols,
> they can simply set CPPFLAGS before running configure (the -D flags
> belong in CPPFLAGS, rather than CFLAGS, in any case).

I have removed them.  Let's see if someone complains about it.

/Simon