Re: [Boost-build] Sorry, option '-openmp' is not supported on FreeBSD

From: Douglas Gregor (doug.gregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-09 09:39:18

On Jan 9, 2006, at 4:50 AM, Alexander Nasonov wrote:

> Douglas Gregor wrote:
>> On Jan 8, 2006, at 8:02 PM, Alexander Nasonov wrote:
>>> Can we replace -openmp option with -mt option on FreeBSD?
>>
>> -openmp is a really weird flag to use to enable multithreading.
>> OpenMP is *very* different from pthreads, which one would expect to
>> use for the Boost.Thread library on FreeBSD...
>
> I would expect to use pthreads on linux as well. Does -openmp imply
> pthreds on linux?

-openmp implies OpenMP support, which are aren't using in Boost at  
all. It doesn't look like it implies pthreads.
However, the Intel compiler does seem to support the (GCC) option - 
pthreads. We could probably use that, instead.

        Doug