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

From: Ross Smith (rosss_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-26 22:26:19

David Abrahams wrote:
> Ross Smith <rosss_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
>>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?
>   
> Do what?  Get all multithreaded libraries automatically with zero user
> intervention on the command-line?  You convince the Boost developers
> who told me single-threading should be the default when I started
> Boost.Build that they were wrong, and I change the default.

What the hell is the matter with you? All I asked was how to set the
multithreaded option. I looked in the documentation and couldn't find
it. Are you too l33t to answer questions from mere users now?

>>(2) Why isn't it documented? Are users supposed to know about this bit
>>    of voodoo by clairvoyance, or what?
> 
> Yes.
> 
>>(3) How many other undocumented gotchas like this are lurking in there?
> 
> 63 and a half.

Yeah yeah. Just keep taking the tablets, as the good Lord said to Moses.

-- 
Ross Smith ...................... Pharos Systems, Auckland, New Zealand
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     power on my person than the entire North American continent
     circa 1973." -- Charlie Stross