Hi -

I'm trying to build boost on an AIX box using GCC, and am having pthread issues.

In particular:

------------------------------------------------------------------------ $ uname -a AIX dev-app-a00 2 5 00089FFC4C00 unknown unknown AIX

$ gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix5.1.0.0/3.3.3/specs Configured with: ../gcc-3.3.3/configure --disable-nls Thread model: aix gcc version 3.3.3

$ bjam -v Boost.Jam Version 3.1.10. OS=AIX. [... elided copyright stuff ...]

$ bjam [... elided PYTHON stuff here ...] ...found 7231 targets... ...updating 840 targets... gcc-C++-action bin/boost/libs/date_time/build/libboost_date_time.so/gcc/debug/shared-linkable-true/greg_month.o

In file included from /home/dkatz/dev/Engine/Agorai/Boost/boost/detail/lwm_pthreads.hpp:20, from /home/dkatz/dev/Engine/Agorai/Boost/boost/detail/lightweight_mutex.hpp:92,

from /home/dkatz/dev/Engine/Agorai/Boost/boost/detail/shared_count.hpp:28, from /home/dkatz/dev/Engine/Agorai/Boost/boost/shared_ptr.hpp:26, from /home/dkatz/dev/Engine/Agorai/Boost/boost/date_time/gregorian/greg_month.hpp:14,

from /home/dkatz/dev/Engine/Agorai/Boost/libs/date_time/src/gregorian/greg_month.cpp:14:

/usr/include/pthread.h:554: error: `pthread_rwlock_t' was not declared in this scope /usr/include/pthread.h:554: error: parse error before `)' token [... lots more pthread problems of this sort ...] ^C...interrupted $

Hi, I got this same problem when I (accidentally) tried to build Boost with gcc 3.2. When I used 3.4, everything worked, so you might try upgrading the compiler. cheers, /Patrik

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