Compilation error during arm cross compile - boost 1.36

[Priya B <priya@…>]

I get the following error while cross compiling the boost 1.36 release for arm. The compiler used is codesourcery's 2007q3 gcc based ( 4.2.1) compiler. The compiler error is displayed as follows ../libboost_thread_gcc-mt.so: undefined reference to sync_add_and_fetch_4

This error was supposed to be fixed in 1.36 ( I don't recall the previous ticket number ). Looking at the logs, Peter Dimov was the person incharge of the fix.

Your help is much appreciated.

[anonymous]

I found out that it was the new code in the exception directory that was causing this problem. Excluding the exceptions ( using BOOST_EXCEPTION_DISABLE flag), seem to fix the problem. Hopefully the exception libraries will be fixed in the next version of boost.

[zoulei198547@…]

Replying to anonymous:

I found out that it was the new code in the exception directory that was causing this problem. Excluding the exceptions ( using BOOST_EXCEPTION_DISABLE flag), seem to fix the problem. Hopefully the exception libraries will be fixed in the next version of boost.

Could you tell me how to do this ?

[anonymous]

We used a command line as below to exclude exceptions ./bjam --with-thread --with-system --with-filesystem --with-date_time variant=release variant=debug cxxflags=-DBOOST_EXCEPTION_DISABLE stage

Hope this helps

• Priya

[Peter Dimov]

Is this bug still relevant?

[anonymous]

Have not tested with the latest release. Hence, cannot confirm if its been fixed.