Re: [boost] Config patch to fix bug #802 --- BOOST_DISABLE_THREADS and /Za on MSVC

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-11-28 14:00:10

Anthony Williams wrote:
> Since the boost thread headers can now be used without including
> <windows.h>, can I commit the following patch to
> boost/config/suffix.hpp in order to stop BOOST_DISABLE_THREADS being
> defined just because the user specified /Za on the command line?
>
> There was a discussion about this back in May, but I don't remember
> there being a definite outcome.

That would almost certainly break Regex and maybe other libraries as well 
:-(

I would prefer not to make this change to Boost.Config for 1.35, but we 
should try to find a decent way of handling this.

Any other ideas?

Thanks, John.