Re: [Threads-devel] Cannot build on trunk

From: Anthony Williams (anthony_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-25 11:01:51

> Anthony Williams wrote:
>> Sorry for the inconvenience.
>
> Ok, works again, thank you.
>
> Another issue:
>
> I have seen, that you have purged the thread.jam, and the
> build of boost_thread_pthread.
>
> I'd like to restore this feature. I hope you do not have any
> objections.

What do you want to achieve? I pulled thread.jam into Jamfile.v2 in order
to simplify the build, and ensure that the thrd-api stuff was carried over
into  things outside the boost thread .dll and .lib files.

As I understand it, boost_thread_pthread was just a build that was
guaranteed to use pthread, even on Windows. You can achieve this by
putting thrd-api=pthread on the bjam command line:

bjam msvc-7.1 thrd-api=pthread

If that's not what you want, let me know, and we can find a way to do it.
That may be to bring back boost_thread_pthread or split thread.jam back
out again, but there may be a better way.

Anthony
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