Berkely db and _RENTRANT

Russell Fulton (r.fulton@auckland.ac.nz)
Thu, 20 Jun 1996 15:21:47 +1200 (NZT)

Greetings All.
Firstly, apologies for bringing this up here. It isn't
strictly LDAP, but arose while I was following directions for
installing SLAPD so I expect some of you have tripped over this
particular rock already.

I have decided to have a try with the Berkeley db Btree. So I tried
installing db and having noted the warning in the manual for Solaris
2.x users I altered the Makefile to add -D_REENTRANT to all
compiles. Unfortunately this causes syntax errors in the build
relating to places in the db code where values are assigned to errno.

The effect of defining _REENTRANT is to make errno a function
returning an int rather than an int. Hence errno = 0 comes out as
__errno() = 0 and the compiler rightly bitches.

Any way around this one?

Ldap 3.3, db 1.85, on solaris 2.5 compiler gcc.

I have compiled it without the _REENTRANT flag and everything seems to
run OK but that may be because the server is extreamly lightly
loaded. i.e. just me doing queries.

Thanks, Russell.