[Boost-users] 1.40 and pch - gcc problems?

Subject: [Boost-users] 1.40 and pch - gcc problems?
From: Jonathan Brannan (kickace_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-09-03 13:48:54

I just got 1.40 and tried building.  I kept having some pieces fail
with a complete build, sometimes I had gcc that ran until resources
exausted, sometimes the compiler would segfault.  Eventaully I tracked
it down to the math library.  After noticing the many errors from the
gch (things like : error _REENTERANT not defined or used diffrent
-fpic).  I disabled pch for the math library (actually the boost
project and the libs/math/test) and I did not have any more issues.

This is how I compiled it:
./bootstrap.sh --without-icu --prefix=ID_1_40_0
./bjam install stage --prefix=/path/to/install -j 16
--buildid=ID_1_40_0 --layout=tagged --build-type=complete
--stagedir=/path/to/install

The system is sles (suse enterprise) 11.  It's an 8 core intel machine.

gcc version 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291] (SUSE Linux)

I did not figure out how to disable this via the command line, so I did this:

*** boost_1_40_0-compiled/Jamroot       2009-08-23 12:17:37.000000000 -0400
--- boost_1_40_0-new/Jamroot    2009-09-03 13:25:05.000000000 -0400
***************
*** 177,182 ****
--- 177,183 ----
        # Disable auto-linking for all targets here, primarily because it caused
        # troubles with V2.
        <define>BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1
+       <toolset>gcc:<pch>off
        # Used to encode variant in target name. See the 'tag' rule below.
        <tag>@$(__name__).tag
        <conditional>@handle-static-runtime
*** boost_1_40_0-compiled/libs/math/test/Jamfile.v2     2009-07-23
05:45:33.000000000 -0400
--- boost_1_40_0-new/libs/math/test/Jamfile.v2  2009-09-03
13:24:40.000000000 -0400
***************
*** 23,28 ****
--- 23,29 ----
        <toolset>intel:<linkflags>-nologo
        #<toolset>intel-linux:<pch>off
        <toolset>intel-darwin:<pch>off
+       <toolset>gcc:<pch>off
        <toolset>msvc:<warnings>all
        <toolset>msvc:<asynch-exceptions>on
        <toolset>msvc:<cxxflags>/wd4996