Re: [Boost-testing] [thread][spirit][regex][bbv2][qcc] Multi-threaded failures

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-07 10:02:00

Jim Douglas wrote:

> Since the switch to bbv2 I have been experiencing failures in thread,
> spirit & regex due to the inclusion of pthread in the list of link
> libraries. I have at long last tracked down the offending piece of code
> which can be found in ..libs\thread\build\Jamfile.v2 :
> 
> <snippet>
> if [ os.name ] = NT
> {
>      reqts = <link>shared:<define>BOOST_THREAD_BUILD_DLL=1 ;
> }
> else
> {
>      # Declare the uses system library
>      lib pthread : : <name>pthread ;
>      usage = <library>pthread ;
> }
> </snippet>
> 
> This will fail big time on the QNX qcc toolset for a number of reasons:

Hi Jim,

this was a pretty bad code added long time ago. I've just removed it
altogether.

Thanks for report!

- Volodya