Andreas Unterkircher wrote:
I'm working on porting a large project to IA64. Therefore I'd like to use the boost thread package on IA64 using gcc 3.2.3 (standard compiler on the SL 3 Linux distribution).
For reference, I used Debian 3.1 (sarge) with g++ 3.3.5 and Boost from CVS shortly before 1.33. <snip>
In the boost mailing list archive I found an IA64 patch posted by Ben Hutchings. Applying this patch and recompiling boost I get:
g++ -g -O2 -pthread -I/opt/boostTest/include/boost-1_33 -L/opt/boostTest/lib -lboost_filesystem-gcc-mt -lboost_thread-gcc-mt -lpthread -lboost_regex-gcc-mt prog.c
The patch is supposed to add a -D_REENTRANT to that. Are you constructing this command-line yourself?
In file included from /opt/boostTest/include/boost-1_33/boost/thread/detail/config.hpp:18, from /opt/boostTest/include/boost-1_33/boost/thread/mutex.hpp:15, from prog.c:2: /opt/boostTest/include/boost-1_33/boost/config/requires_threads.hpp:47:5: #error "Compiler threading support is not turned on. Please set the correct command line options for threading: -pthread (Linux), -pthreads (Solaris) or -mthreads (Mingw32)"
But when I use "-DBOOST_HAS_THREADS" everything works fine:
g++ -g -O2 -pthread -DBOOST_HAS_THREADS -I/op/boostTest/include/boost-1_33 -L/opt/boostTest/lib -lboost_filesystem-gcc-mt -lboost_thread-gcc-mt -lpthread -lboost_regex-gcc-mt prog.c
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Here are my questions:
Boost 1.33.0 contains the file boost/detail/sp_counted_base_gcc_ia64.hpp, nevertheless thread support seems not to work with gcc3.2.3. Thread support works by applying the patch and using "-DBOOST_HAS_THREADS". What is the status of boost 1.33.0 concerning IA64 ? I guess the patch has not been incorporated into the boost distribution ?
Sorry, no, I seem to have missed committing the change to gcc-tools.jam. Since I don't normally develop on IA64 this error wasn't obvious to me until now.
On IA32 I can compile and use boost 1.33.0 threads using gcc3.2.3 without using "-DBOOST_HAS_THREADS". Why is this the case ?
You're telling Boost that the compiler has been configured to use thread-safe options (which unfortunately is not true if _REENTRANT is not defined).
Ideally I would like to use the same compiler flags to compile a project using boost on IA32 and IA64.
You can use the options -pthread -D_REENTRANT on both. Ben.