RE: [Boost-Users] linking with boost.threads on solaris 8 with gcc 3.0.3

From: Dale Peakall (dale.peakall_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-28 09:44:38

> Don't forget that you *must* also compile with -pthreads and link
> with -pthreads, without this you won't have a thread safe std lib, and
> probably other problems as well (see gcc -dumpspecs for a full list of
> what -pthreads does on Solaris).  The issue we're grappling
> with is that when you specify -pthreads in debug mode you will get an
> unresolved external from std::runtime_error::runtime_error, the fix is to
place:
>
> #pragma implementation "stdexcept"
>
> in one of your source files (this isn't needed for release code though).
We
> should probably get this fix rolled into the thread lib itself at some
> stage.

Intriguing, as gcc-3.0.3 doesn't have a -pthread argument.  I believe you
specify the threading model with a configure argument when building gcc now
(although I just grabbed pre-built binaries, so I may be wrong).

        - Dale.