Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Tests fail building with boost1.52

[Philip Balister]

On 01/23/2013 09:45 AM, Tom Rondeau wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 5:42 AM, Barry Jackson <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> I package gnuradio for Mageia and we are having problems with test
>> failures with 3.6.3 in our beta2 distro release.
>> (from git tag v3.6.3 since release tarball was from 3.6.4git)
>>
>> We have boost-1.52 and the package builds, but fails 143 tests. Full build
>> system log is here:-
>> http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/**uploads/failure/cauldron/core/**
>> release/20130123090056.barjac.**valstar.22658/log/botcmd.**
>> 1358931665.ecosse.log<http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/uploads/failure/cauldron/core/release/20130123090056.barjac.valstar.22658/log/botcmd.1358931665.ecosse.log>
>>
>> As a test I set up a local system using boost-1.53 beta1. (with uhd also
>> built on the same system)
>> This fails only 3 tests. log is here:
>> http://mtf.no-ip.co.uk/pub/**linux/barjac/soft/log.gnuradio<http://mtf.no-ip.co.uk/pub/linux/barjac/soft/log.gnuradio>
>>
>> Switching to boost-1.53 beta1 for us is not an option for a stable
>> release, plus we are now in version freeze.
>>
>> Unless there is a fix for this using boost-1.52 then our only option may
>> be to drop gnuradio from the distro.
>>
>> Any help will be appreciated.
>>
>> Barry
>>
> 
> Barry,
> 
> I'm afraid we can't use Boost 1.52 with GNU Radio. See:
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7669
> 
> The thread join_all is very important for clean operation of a flowgraph.
> There's a similar bug in 1.47 that we can't use, either. In fact, you
> shouldn't have been able to compile against 1.52 since we've explicitly
> disabled it in GrBoost.cmake.

Has this been reported to the boost people? There is a boost 1.53 beta,
I wonder if the problem is fixed there.

Are the test failures related to the thread join_all problem?

Philip

> 
> Is there an option of going back to 1.51?



> 
> Tom
> 
> 
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