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

From: Dale Peakall (dale.peakall_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-29 09:23:58

Sorry for previous straight reply, you no when you've been
outlooked :-(

> > 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).
> 
> I don't know about gcc3, but the way to tell is to do a
> 
> gcc -dumpspecs | less
> 
> and then search for "thread",
> 
> BTW gcc2.95 doesn't have -pthread either: it's spelt 
> -pthreads, note the trailing 's' it makes a difference!

gcc3 does have a -pthreads argument!  I just stole the
argument from the gcc-tools jam file - this will need to
be fixed.

> For gcc 2.95 -pthreads is the same as:
> CXXFLAGS=-D_REENTRANT -D_PTHREADS
> LIBS=-lpthread

Don't know if gcc3 will have the same problems with
stdexcept.

        - Dale.