Re: [Boost-build] Disabling zlib/bzip2

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Disabling zlib/bzip2
From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-09-29 13:11:14

On Tuesday 09 September 2008 02:21:48 Mirko Stocker wrote:
> On Monday 08 September 2008 23:09:20 Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > Is this the first error? It looks either like your compiler is totally
> > misconfigured, or some other error messes things up.
> 
> Never mind, I did a make clean and now it looks much better! Must habe been 
> some leftovers from my previous experiments.
> 
> But I've got another question instead :)
> 
> How do I disable multithreading support properly? Right now, I just commented 
> out the lines in gcc.jam that set up '-pthread' to get rid of the warnings.

You might want to try the current SVN HEAD version of Boost.Build, where this
is now handled.

> 
> Apart from that, I get "...failed updating 2 targets..." at the end of the 
> build, and the only problems I see in the output are:
> 
> bin.v2/libs/config/test/all/no_std_locale_pass.test/gcc-mingw-4.2.1/release/link-static/pch-off/target-os-windows/threading-multi/no_std_locale_pass: 
> 1: MZ����@���: not found
> bin.v2/libs/config/test/all/no_std_locale_pass.test/gcc-mingw-4.2.1/release/link-static/pch-off/target-os-windows/threading-multi/no_std_locale_pass: 
> 8: Syntax error: ")" unexpected
> 
> That's probably because these executables are now for Windows, and can't be 
> executed. Is there a way to 'fix' this?

I believe Robert has fixed this.

- Volodya