Re: [Boost-users] Building Boost 1.31.1 on OpenBSD

From: Quantum Skyline (quantum.skyline_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-12 21:35:03

John Maddock wrote:
>> This gets repeated several times:
>> gcc-C++-action
>> bin/boost/libs/thread/build/libboost_thread.so/gcc/debug/shared-linkable-true/threading-multi/barrier.o 
>>
>> In file included from
>> /home/quantum/boost_1_33_1/boost/thread/detail/config.hpp:18,
>>                  from
>> /home/quantum/boost_1_33_1/libs/thread/src/barrier.cpp:12:
>> /home/quantum/boost_1_33_1/boost/config/requires_threads.hpp:29:4:
>> #error "Threading support unavaliable: it has been explicitly disabled
>> with BOOST_DISABLE_THREADS"
> 
>> I tried using the configure script and then running make to execute
>> the makefile - shouldn't the configure script have detected threading
>> availability in the compiler?
> 
> It's turning off threading support because it thinks your libstdc++ is 
> built single threaded: however I have a suspicion this is may be due to 
> a bug I fixed a while back - basically it means that if you configure 
> gcc with --enable-threads=posix rather than --enable-threads=default 
> then our config doesn't correctly detect that case (in case you're 
> thinking "but they're the same thing!", they're not at least as far as 
> the macros set by libstdc++ are concerned).
> 
> Anyway can you try replacing boost/config/stdlib/libstdcpp3.hpp with the 
> current cvs version (attached) and see if that fixes things?
> 

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Hi,

I tried your suggestion and got this error message:

...failed gcc-C++-action 
bin/boost/libs/thread/build/libboost_thread.a/gcc/release/threading-multi/tss.o...
gcc-C++-action 
bin/boost/libs/thread/build/libboost_thread.a/gcc/release/threading-multi/xtime.o
In file included from 
/home/quantum/boost_1_33_1/boost/thread/detail/config.hpp:18,
                  from 
/home/quantum/boost_1_33_1/libs/thread/src/xtime.cpp:12:
/home/quantum/boost_1_33_1/boost/config/requires_threads.hpp:47:5: 
#error "Compiler threading support is not turned on. Please set the 
correct command line options for threading: -pthread (Linux), -pthreads 
(Solaris) or -mthreads (Mingw32)"

     set -e
     "g++"   -c -Wall -ftemplate-depth-255  -DNDEBUG -DNDEBUG 
-DBOOST_THREAD_LIB_NAME=boost_thread -DBOOST_THREAD_BUILD_LIB=1  -O3 
-finline-functions -Wno-inline -pthread 
-I"bin/boost/libs/thread/build"   -I "/home/quantum/boost_1_33_1"  -o 
"bin/boost/libs/thread/build/libboost_thread.a/gcc/release/threading-multi/xtime.o" 
  "/home/quantum/boost_1_33_1/libs/thread/build/../src/xtime.cpp"

Any other suggestions?  I've already set the LIBS variable to "-lpthread".