[boost] Re: 1.30.0->1.30.2: no more thread support for Linux?

From: Ross Smith (rosss_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-26 16:12:14

David Abrahams wrote:
> "Neal D. Becker" <nbecker_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>
>>You mean I can't just run bjam with no options and get the libs built with 
>>thread support?  I need to add a command-line option?
> 
> The libraries that require thread support will be built with thread
> support.  The others will not, unless <threading>multi has been placed
> in their default-build settings; <threading>single is the global
> default.

Which leads to three questions:

(1) How do we do this?

(2) Why isn't it documented? Are users supposed to know about this bit 
of voodoo by clairvoyance, or what?

(3) How many other undocumented gotchas like this are lurking in there?

-- 
Ross Smith ...................... Pharos Systems, Auckland, New Zealand
     "I virtually never go out of the house with less computing
     power on my person than the entire North American continent
     circa 1973." -- Charlie Stross