Subject: bug#17773: AIX build errors with coreutils-8.22

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 10:57:48 -0700

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.