Cristian Stoica wrote: > Hi Fulvio, > > Some people take toolchain upgrades less lightly. For example, Gentoo > has currently unmasked only gcc 4.6. Are you trying to argue that it is better to use software that is not updated? There are technical reasons why Gentoo is forced to long release cycles for gcc, but they update as soon as they can and even debian stable now use gcc 4.7.2
> > According to http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx0x.html, support for > -std=c++0x is less likely to be backported and gcc 4.8 is rather new. You have misread: I wrote the multi-threading code in 2011 using gcc 4.6.1 without problems and even your 4.5.4 claim to support it > > Since the problem I saw with game window comes from -std=c++0x rather > than from -pthreads did you consider activating c++0x only if the > toolchain supports it instead of setting it the default?|| What is > your view on this? > It's not about c++0x support: it is a known bug. The configure script actually used to activate multi-threading only if c++0x was supported (in 2011 gcc versions without c++0x support were not unusual), but I have changed the configure script recently precisely because of this bug: practically every gcc version around claim to support c++0x, but there are old versions that crash at runtime with a cryptic message. So the THREADS option was added and now the decision on when to turn off multi-threading is left to the user: when you run ./configure: ' Multi-threading enabled (if you have problems try ./configure THREADS=""). ' in the wiki: http://sourceforge.net/p/scid/wiki/CompileScid/ and in many posts in the mailing-list. I think it's a false problem: there are servers not connected to internet on which makes sense to not risk updating something that works perfectly, or some users who likes his old systems (i also have and sometime use an old ubuntu 10.4 with gnome 2) but writing ./configure THREADS="" don't seem so complicated to me. However, recently on the mailing-list, Marius Roets offered to work on a better build process: you can work with him to write a portable way (should work on Macs too with clang) to detect the bug and automatically disable multi-threading (just avoid some ugly if gcc -v < 4.6 then). Bye, Fulvio ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_may _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
