I figured it out.

It was an obscure, seemingly undocumented option to bjam:

instruction-set=i686

 

i.e

bjam architecture=x86 address-model=32 instruction-set=i686 --stagedir=stage32 --with-filesystem --with-thread --with-signals --with-serialization --with-system --with-program_options --with-date_time stage

 

Could anyone point me to where I would have found that without grepping gcc.jam?

 

 

From: Birju Prajapati
Sent: 24 April 2009 13:12
To: boost-users@lists.boost.org
Subject: undefined reference to `__sync_fetch_and_add_4'

 

Hi,

I built boost 1.38 as so:

bjam architecture=x86 address-model=32 --stagedir=stage32 --with-filesystem --with-thread --with-signals --with-serialization --with-system --with-program_options --with-date_time stage

 

Copied the files over to /usr/local/lib32:

sudo cp stage32/lib/* /usr/local/lib32/

 

Compiled object files, eg:

g++ -m32   -c -g -D_LINUX -I. -I/opt/sts_vendor/onix-eurex/include -I/usr/local/include/boost-1_38 -MMD -MP -MF build/Debug/GNU-Linux-x86/reference/ReferenceData.o.d -o build/Debug/GNU-Linux-x86/reference/ReferenceData.o reference/ReferenceData.cpp

 

Then linking does not work:

g++ -m32    -o dist/Debug/GNU-Linux-x86/spreadx build/Debug/GNU-Linux-x86/multicast/MulticastChannel.o build/Debug/GNU-Linux-x86/reference/ReferenceData.o build/Debug/GNU-Linux-x86/reference/Strategy.o build/Debug/GNU-Linux-x86/executor/MessageExecutor.o build/Debug/GNU-Linux-x86/multicast/MulticastSelector.o build/Debug/GNU-Linux-x86/fast/FIXStreamSubscriber.o build/Debug/GNU-Linux-x86/reference/Product.o build/Debug/GNU-Linux-x86/spreadx.o build/Debug/GNU-Linux-x86/fast/FIXMessage.o build/Debug/GNU-Linux-x86/multicast/Message.o build/Debug/GNU-Linux-x86/fast/FastDecoder.o build/Debug/GNU-Linux-x86/reference/Outright.o -L/opt/sts_vendor/onix-eurex/lib -L/usr/tibco/tibrv/lib -L/usr/local/lib32 -lffCppFixEngine -lACE -lcrypto -lboost_serialization-gcc43-mt -lboost_system-gcc43-mt -lboost_thread-gcc43-mt

/usr/local/lib32/libboost_serialization-gcc43-mt.so: undefined reference to `__sync_fetch_and_add_4'

 

I’ve tried #define BOOST_SP_USE_PTHREADS in user.hpp, I’ve tried –march=i486, but neither works.

 

What gives?

 

My platform details:

birju@xx:~$ g++ --version

g++ (Ubuntu 4.3.2-1ubuntu12) 4.3.2

Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO

warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

 

birju@xx:~$ uname -a

Linux xx 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Wed Apr 1 20:53:41 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

birju@xx:~$

 

Cheers,

Birju

 

 

 

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