Thanks Andreas! Your trick works on my machine.

Here is the pull request:
https://github.com/inducer/pycuda/pull/7

Regards,

N

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Andreas Kloeckner
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 17:12:29 -0400, Nicolas Pinto wrote:
>>>
>>> One bit of information that might be relevant is that you can
>>> only import one package that uses shipped boost at a time, for some
>>> reason.
>>
>> Any idea what the reason could be. I love the fact that I can now "pip
>> install -vU py{cuda,opencl}" on every machine I have and it works
>> beautfiully with the shipped boost *BUT* not when a program wants to
>> use both. I'd love to contribute a fix but I have a limited bandwidth
>> and a pointer would be helpful.
>
> I think there are some global structures (type tables?) that are supposed to
> be shared among all BPL-using modules, and I think the fact that there are
> now two modules trying to export those is what makes things break. I'm not
> sure how those structures are accessed. If they're accessed by symbol name
> with some dynamic linker magic, here's a trick that could work: Simply
> compile pycuda with -Dboost=pycudaboost and pyopencl with
> -Dboost=pyopenclboost. That should (somewhat forcibly) rename that "boost"
> namespace. It might also break all kinds of other stuff. But it's worth
> trying.
>
> Let me know how it goes.
>
> Andreas
>



-- 
Nicolas Pinto, PhD
http://web.mit.edu/pinto

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