[Boost-users] [program_options] Issues with boost::program_options freezing

From: Zachary Mark (zmark_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-08-04 13:41:03

Hello,

Our application is using boost::program_options to parse commandline 
arguments.  We have found that when we perform our own builds of boost 
from source code, program_options freezes the application hard at 
variable points in the code (a step through in GDB confirms this).  
However, when we use pre-built binaries of the program_options library 
for any of our target OSes (Debian stable, Centos 4, Fedora 4) the 
application runs properly.

We are also using the boost::thread library.  Are there thread safety or 
interaction issues between thread and program_options that I am not 
aware of?  We are using 1.32 due a change in the behavior of 
program_options in 1.33.  This script shows how we are building boost.

# run configure

cd libs/config || fail-configure
chmod +x configure || fail "error: could not change permissions on 
${PACKAGE} configure script"
./configure || fail-configure
cp user.hpp ../../boost/config/

cd ../..

# build and install libraries

BOOST_LIBS="date_time filesystem program_options regex thread"

for LIB in ${BOOST_LIBS}; do
  echo "Building library ${LIB}..."
  bjam -sTOOLS=gcc -sBUILD="release threading=multi" --with-${LIB} \
     --layout="system" stage 2>&1 || \
     fail "error: could not build boost library ${LIB}"
  bjam -sTOOLS=gcc -sBUILD="release threading=multi" --with-${LIB} 
--layout="system" \
      --prefix=`pwd`/../../${INSTALL_DIR} install 2>&1 || \
     fail "error: could not install boost library ${LIB}"
done

Thanks in advance.

-- Zach