I am "packaging" on a "clean" system, i.e., as few dependancies as possible. And I have some warnings about certain features not being included because the libraries are missing. Further, just compiling by manually adding -pthread seems to be working. Once I have the defines needed for the other programs I will run "make check" Thanks for the quick replies (I was on a plane and could not reply back earlier). On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 06/13/2014 10:29 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > >> So I'd be inclined to add those definitions in the pthread module, >> but if not we could define at the top of sort.c at least? >> > > The latter doesn't sound safe, since it would mean the files in > libcoreutils.a would be compiled without -D_THREAD_SAFE and would thus > access a global shared errno even when linked with sort.c. So I vote for > the former. > >