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

From: Chris Cooney (ccooney_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-27 10:54:28

Well played ;)

/*************************************
* Chris Cooney
* Ventana Group
* ccooney_at_[hidden]
* [phone] x201
**************************************/

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachments are for the exclusive
and confidential use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended
recipient, please do not read, save, distribute or take action in reliance
upon this message. If you have received this in error, please notify the
sender immediately by return email and immediately delete this message and
any attachment(s) from your email.

-----Original Message-----
From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden]
[mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]]On Behalf Of David Abrahams
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 4:16 AM
To: boost_at_[hidden]
Subject: [boost] Re: 1.30.0->1.30.2: no more thread support for Linux?

Ross Smith <rosss_at_[hidden]> writes:

> 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?

I was a bit miffed by your outraged response to my explanatory reply.
I thought I was being helpful and instead I got "when did you stop
beating your wife?" questions like #2 and #3 below.  How is anyone
supposed to answer those?

> All I asked was how to set the multithreaded option.

That question wasn't clear from your posting.  As far as I could tell
you were asking how to "just run bjam with no options and get the libs
built with thread support".  Maybe if you applied a little less heat
it would be easier to help you.  Sarcastic rhetoric may have hurt the
comprehensibility of your request.

http://www.boost.org/tools/build/build_system.htm documents how to
set the build request on the command-line, and you can in fact find a
mention of <threading>multi in there if you dig hard enough.

> I looked in the documentation and couldn't find it. Are you too l33t
> to answer questions from mere users now?

Ask me a question which is more than just a way to vent your
frustration and I'm happy to try to answer it.

>>>(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.

Oh, so *that's* where the visions came from! ;-)

--
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com
_______________________________________________
Unsubscribe & other changes:
http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost