[Boost-users] (newbie) boost thread compile problems on Fedora 8

Hi, I am having trouble compiling a correct version of the boost thread library on a x86_64 Fedora Core 8 and was wondering if anyone can help me out. I've tried both version 1.37 and 1.39. I describe below what I do and what happens after that. I am on an AMD64 Fedora Core 8 platform (with gcc 4.1.2 and glibc 2.7) that already had boost 1.34 on it at /usr/lib level. I erased that version by deleting all the libraries and moving 'boost' directory in /usr/include to 'boost_1-34' directory. I download the .gz tarball, bootstrap it, make it (with make for 1.37 and bjam for 1.39) and install it to /usr/local/lib. The compilation goes without a hitch (except for some warnings for boost serialization and others, but not for thread). I have both .a and .so files generated and residing in /usr/local/lib and boost include files in /usr/local/include. I add the links libboost_thread-mt.a and libboost_thread-mt.so to point to libboost_thread-gcc41-mt_1.3x.* libs. Now, I write a small test program (given below). It gives me linker errors with undefined references to pretty much every pthread symbol. If anyone wants I can paste all the errors in the next message. When I add the -lpthread flag to the compile, it gives me an undefined reference error with regards to __vdso_clock_gettime from /lib64/libpthread.a. I'm not sure where exactly the problem lies and would greatly appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction. Thank you. regards, Kishalay My test program: compiled with: gcc -o testk test.cpp -lboost_thread-mt #include <cstdio> #include <cstdlib> #include using namespace std; using namespace boost; static void somefunc( ) { printf( "thread calling this\n" ); } int main( int argc, char** argv ) { boost::thread* t = new thread( somefunc ); delete t; }