Re: [ethereal-dev] Re: [ethereal-users] Problems compiling 0.7.7 under AIX 4.3.2

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> I believe glib and gtk+ should both be compiled with xlc_r. I haven't
> compiled on AIX in a long time, but I think it's because glib is including
> pthread stuff, so the re-entrant C library, libc_r, is needed. 
> 
> Can you get to http://9.53.35.177:80/techlib/manuals/adoclib/aixprggd/genprogc/multi.htm

Nope, but I saw the same page in the stuff on "www.rs6000.ibm.com";
however, it said "multi-threaded program", so I wasn't sure that this
applied to a library, especially if you weren't actually using threading
in the application.

If it does apply, so that a library that uses pthread stuff - or that
uses a library that uses pthread stuff - must be compiled with "cc_r" or
"xlc_r", somebody should tell the GTK folks about it.

(Does this also mean that Ethereal *itself* would need to be compiled
with "cc_r" or "xlc_r", if compiled with the native AIX C compiler?)