Bug 969183

Summary: RHEL 6 boost not compatible with DTS gcc
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Petr Machata <pmachata>
Component: boostAssignee: Petr Machata <pmachata>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Miroslav Franc <mfranc>
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Version: 6.5CC: law, mcermak, mfranc, mnewsome, ohudlick
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Description Petr Machata 2013-05-30 20:28:10 UTC 
Created attachment 755041 [details]
Fix for this issue

Description of problem:
Boost as shipped with RHEL 6 fails to detect threading support in recent GCC's (such as those shipped with DTS).  See this for more details:
  https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6165

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
boost-1.41.0-18.el6

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Attempt to build boost with recent (post-4.7) GCC.
-or-
2. Compile the following program against recent Boost headers:

Actual results:
Failure:
#include <boost/thread.hpp>
In file included from ./boost/thread/detail/platform.hpp:17:0,
                 from ./boost/thread/thread.hpp:12,
                 from ./boost/thread.hpp:13,
                 from ../x.cc:1:
./boost/config/requires_threads.hpp:29:4: ошибка: #error "Threading support unavaliable: it has been explicitly disabled with BOOST_DISABLE_THREADS"

Expected results:
Success.
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-14 06:22:21 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-1440.html