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 <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> 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.