Re: [Boost-users] [regex] Static linking woes with gcc 4.0x on FedoraCore

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-23 07:51:01

David Yon wrote:
> So given the dearth of discussion on this category of problem, I'm
> guessing that perhaps this is a problem with gcc 4.x?  Are there any
> known issues with boost.regex on gcc 4.0.x?  Are they fixed in 4.1?
> Should I just fall back to Fedora Core 3 to get gcc 3.x?

David, I've not seen or heard of anything like that before, the first thing 
to check is that the regex tests work OK,

cd into libs/regex/test

and

bjam regex_regress

Assuming gcc-4 is your default compiler then that will build the main 
regression test program *with static linking*.

If that works OK, then I bet there's some lind of binary incompatibity 
between the lib variant that you're using and your program: try adding the 
regex source direct to your program's build process and see if that works, 
if it does I would suggest building the regex source into a static lib 
yourself using whatever compiler options you're using.

However... I note that your program is calling exit explicity, there's just 
an outside chance that there's some kind of bug either in the regex lib 
initialisation/cleanup routines or in gcc-4.x.  Or... maybe your program is 
accessing the regex lib during it's cleanup routines, and finding that regex 
has already destroyed it's globals?  Those are just wildcard suggestions 
frankly.

HTH, John.