--enable threads

[Ladislav Vobr]

Thanks for your reply Simon,

	I have successfully compiled it on solaris9 as 64-bit code, and 
--enable-threads and it seems to have better performance against the 
32bit code.

	I failed compiling it on Solaris8, and I am investigating it, does 
anybody successfully compiled bind with 64bits on Solaris8?

	64bit code can be ran by any sparc2 or sparc3 cpu, Sun T1, E220, E420, 
E450, V120, E280, E480... even with solaris8

Ladislav

Simon Waters wrote:
> Ladislav Vobr wrote:
> 
>>Is Bind 9.2.3 by default single threaded, when --enable-threads is optional?
> 
> The threading default setting use to be platform dependent. But I've
> never had a problem over ruling it and going single threaded, not that I
> see the point - run with the defaults that way you'll hit the same bugs
> as everyone else.
> 
> 
>>Can I use safely 64-bit 9.2.3 code created by gcc.3.3.2 on Solaris 9 
>>64-bit support installation, Sun E280?
> 
> 
> The worse that will happen is you'll lose one name server - if that is a
> safety issue - perhaps you have a network design issue ;)
> 
> Last time I asked the SUN compiler was the officially supported product,
> but hardly anyone was using it to produce BIND executables - so GCC is
> probably as good a bet as any compiler.
> 
> But I haven't had a chance to play with shiny new SUN hardware, so can't
> comment on the specifics.