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From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Andrey Sharandakov wrote:
> That's OK!
> 
> What does this option mean?
> NOLIBC_R  (re-entrant version of libc) - What is it?

libc is the basic C library which provides the routines expected by 
ANSI/POSIX.  A re-entrant version of a library is one that is thread-safe. 
LIBC_R is presumably required by programs which use POSIX threads, aka pthreads.

-- 
-Chuck