Hi, On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> It appears the BOOST_SP_DISABLE_THREADS is the source of monotone's > cross-platform issues on Debian. Namely, that monotone fails to run > (deadlock) on s390, hppa, sparc, mips, and mipsel, but runs fine on > i386, amd64, ia64, alpha and powerpc [1]. > > [1] http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=monotone > > One suggested workaround (by Roman Zippel above) is to remove > -DBOOST_SP_DISABLE_THREADS. The ChangeLog indicates that Nathaniel > added this feature on 2005-09-30. > > So, my questions for the monotone mailing list are... > > 1. Is this more likely a bug in Boost or a bug in monotone? > 2. Is it reasonable to workaround this bug by removing > -DBOOST_SP_DISABLE_THREADS? > 3. Is it worth going to the extra effort to only define > -DBOOST_SP_DISABLE_THREADS on the platforms for which it works? I'll > consider this last option if it means a performance improvement of at > least, say arbitrarily, a factor of two or so. I think this should include the boost maintainer, there has to be some way to safely select the proper compile flags. At least the Debian packages provide a threaded and non-threaded version, but the .so link points to the threaded version by default. If both versions are supposed to be usable equally for non-threaded application it suggest a bug in boost... Anyway, until there is some mechanism to select this safely, it's probably better to compile the application with the same flags as the library was. bye, Roman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
