Re: [Boost-users] Re: Problems with compiling Boost 1.32.0 in RHEL3.0 on Itanium2

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-11 06:03:01

> It seems that all the troubles are caused by the
> undefined BOOST_HAS_THREADS, which then causes the
> breaking down in:
>
> boost_root/boost/config/requires_threads.hpp
>
> I don't why this didn't cause a problem in RHEL GCC
> 3.2.3 on IA32. There are probably some diferences
> between the gcc's pre-processor on IA32 and that on
> IA64.
>
> Anyone can look into it and fix this problem?

I don't know anyone with access to an IA-64 linux machine, two questions 
though:

1) Does the compiler support the -pthread option.
2) Does specifying -pthread set any macros on the command line (normally it 
defines _REENTRANT on linux).

Thanks,

John.