Re: [boost] [Config] BOOST_HAS_PTHREAD_MUTEXATTR_SETTYPE not defined in MACOS for GCC-5

Subject: Re: [boost] [Config] BOOST_HAS_PTHREAD_MUTEXATTR_SETTYPE not defined in MACOS for GCC-5
From: John Maddock (jz.maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-10-29 07:50:27

On 29/10/2015 09:01, Vicente J. Botet Escriba wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> I'm having an issue with gcc-5.1 on MacOs.
>
> BOOST_HAS_PTHREAD_MUTEXATTR_SETTYPE  is not defined.
>
> I see that there are things like
>
> #if __MACH__ && !defined(_MSL_USING_MSL_C)
> ...
>
> #  if (__GNUC__ == 4)
>
> // Both gcc and intel require these.
> #    define BOOST_HAS_PTHREAD_MUTEXATTR_SETTYPE
> #    define BOOST_HAS_NANOSLEEP
>
> #  endif
> #else
> ...
> // BOOST_HAS_PTHREAD_MUTEXATTR_SETTYPE not defined here
> #endif
>
>
> Wondering why the GCC version must be 4 and why when _MSL_USING_MSL_C 
> is defined these PTHREAD attributes are not defined neither.
>
> BTW, when I compile with version 4 everything works correctly.
>

I just don't think this stuff has been updated in a *long* while, plus 
I've never had access to MacOS so I just rely on what folks tell me, 
pushed the obvious change to >= rather than ==.

BTW these should really be detected by posix_features.hpp, but aren't 
for some reason.

John.