[Discuss-gnuradio] Runtime error from boost 1.52 issue on OSX

[Michael McCoy]

I'm writing to describe an issue, and to provide a workaround, related to gnuradio with boost 1.52.  

I built the current gnuradio repo from source on Mac OSX 10.6.8 (satisfied dependencies using MacPorts).  The build went fine, but only 21% of the tests were passed with "make test".  The error was always the same (here the verbose output is for qa_max):

46:   File "/Users/mccoy/gnuradio/gnuradio-core/src/python/gnuradio/gr/qa_max.py", line 69, in <module>

46:     gr_unittest.run(test_max, "test_max.xml")

[... more tracebacks...]

46:   File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/unittest/suite.py", line 93, in run

46:     for test in self:

46: RuntimeError: boost thread: thread not joinable: Invalid argument

The workaround: Downgrade to boost 1.51.  All tests passed after the downgrade (except for one, unrelated to this issue).

Instructions to use macports to get old ports are available here:

https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/InstallingOlderPort

Note: I tried both python 2.6 and 2.7, since it appears, on its face, to be a python error.  The output above comes from python 2.7.  Python 2.6 failed even more frequently. 

Regards,

-Mike