joaquin@tid.es wrote:
OK, understood. Then, we have the somewhat unfortunate situation that in GCC environments Boost.Build links / does not link Pthreads depending on whether the threading parameter is multi / single, whereas Boost.Config does not reflect this situation in any manner!
As most GCC environments (somebody correct me if I'm wrong) are nowadays multithreaded, would it make sense to change GCC Boost.Build bjam rules so that threading=simple results in BOOST_DISABLE_THREADS being defined?
Sigh... no, while that would no doubt fix a few tests, what users were asking for (and what we now build by default) is a single binary for gcc/*nix systems that can be used irrespective of whether they're using threads or not. In other words we want to fix the Boost ABI to be the same as the libstdc++ ABI, no matter whether a default threading-single build is done or not. Hope this is making some sense, but I don't know what the correct solution is.... John.