Re: [boost] Re: como toolset failures

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-26 05:13:27

John Maddock wrote:
>>> flags como-win32 CFLAGS <threading>single :
>>> -DBOOST_SP_DISABLE_THREADS ;
>>
>> This sounds like something that should be fixed in smart_ptr, not in
>> the build system. Would it not be better to have the smart_ptr
>> config use BOOST_SP_DISABLE_THREADS in the case of como strict mode
>> (assuming you can tell) so that it fixes it for everyone, not just
>> people that use Boos.Build.
>
> Or maybe  if the threading API's are inaccessible in that build mode
> we should define BOOST_DISABLE_THREADS, and turn off all threading
> support (it's not just shared_ptr that has it's own lightweight
> threading support).

To cut down support calls ;-) shared_ptr ignores the absence of 
BOOST_HAS_THREADS when it recognizes the platform. But maybe it should honor 
BOOST_DISABLE_THREADS in addition to BOOST_SP_DISABLE_THREADS. I need to 
think about it.