[Boost-users] Issues with two versions of boost libs in same executable?

Subject: [Boost-users] Issues with two versions of boost libs in same executable?
From: Magyar, Thomas J. CIV NAVAIR (thomas.magyar_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-04-05 08:48:25

So I'm having an issue with running an executable which statically links in the boost thread and system libraries on a SUSE Linux 64-bit computer. The static libraries are from boost 1.35.0. 

I also link with a 3rd party .so library. This library pulls in another version of the boost thread library in a .so, which is version 1.44.0. 

Depending on how I run our program, I get a crash in this 3rd party libraries call stack when it looks like it is trying to create a boost thread.  When I removed our code that uses the boost libraries, everything worked fine. When I remove the 3rd party library, everything works fine. 

I'm not familiar with how programs work under this circumstance. Could this mixing of boost versions be a legitimate problem? Is the 3rd party library trying to call a boost function in our statically linked code under certain circumstances, causing the crash? 

Thanks,

Tom