[boost] [boost::thread] program throws thread_resource_error on sun/solaris

From: Lars Kunert (lkunert_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-01-04 06:48:14

I have written a prgram using boost::thread that works fine on a 32 and
on a 64 bit linux machine. On a sun/solaris machine the program fails
with the following message:

>>terminate called after throwing an instance of 'boost::thread_resource_error'
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>> what():  boost::thread_resource_error
>>Abort
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The sun/solaris machine:

>>uname -a
>>SunOS paris 5.9 Generic_118558-24 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-15000
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I untared a fresh boost-package, build and tested it using:

>>SRCDIR="/TL/usr/lkunert/src"
>>BOOSTDIR="${SRCDIR}/boost/boost_1_33_1"
>>
>>cd ${BOOSTDIR}
>>
>>bjam \
>>  "-sTOOLS=gcc"     \
>>  "-sGCC_ROOT_DIRECTORY=${SRCDIR}/sun64/gcc-3.4" \
>>  "-sGXX=g++-3.4"   \
>>  "-sGCC=gcc-3.4"   \
>>\
>>  "-sBUILD=<cxxflags>-m64 <linkflags>-m64 debug release" \
>>\
>>  "--without-python" \
>>  "--with-unit_test" \
>>  "--with-thread"
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and

>>bjam \
>>... \
>>test
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The build returned no errors:

>>...
>>ar: creating
>>bin/boost/libs/thread/build/libboost_thread.a/gcc/release/threading-multi/libboost_thread-gcc-mt-1_33_1.a
>>...updated 71 targets...
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The test worked well too:

>>Building Boost.Regex with the optional Unicode/ICU support disabled.
>>Please refer to the Boost.Regex documentation for more information
>>(and if you don't know what ICU is then you probably don't need it).
>>...found 2 targets...
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In my project I do not use bjam, but autoconf/automake.
In order to test boost::thread by hand, I compiled some of the files in
boost/libs/thread/test by hand...

>>${SRCDIR}/sun64/gcc-3.4/bin/g++-3.4 \
>>-I. \
>>-I${SRCDIR}/sun64/include \
>>-I${SRCDIR}/sun64/include/boost-1.33.1 \
>>-O3 -DNDEBUG -m64 -Wall \
>>-L${SRCDIR}/sun64/lib/boost-1.33.1-g++-3.4 -lboost_thread-gcc-mt
>>-lboost_unit_test_framework-gcc \
>>-R${SRCDIR}/sun64/lib/boost-1.33.1-g++-3.4 \
>>-o test_barrier \
>>test_barrier.cpp
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I get the following error message:

>>Running 1 test case...
>>unknown location(0): fatal error in "test_barrier": std::exception:
>>boost::thread_resource_error
>>
>>*** errors detected in test suite "Boost.Threads: barrier test suite";
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see standard output for details

This is the same error I get from my own code.

It seems, that the bjam-build systems does something right, that I do
not know about. (Like linking to an addidtional library - but why do I
not get a link-error.)

I figured out, that boost::thread uses pthreads...

>>BOOST_HAS_THREADS
>>BOOST_HAS_PTHREADS
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are defined

Thanks for your help,

Lars Kunert