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

[Michael Dickens]

Hi Michael - Quite interesting.  I wonder if the Boost folks know about this 
issue; I doubt it was introduced by MacPorts since mostly they just replicate 
the project's functionality.  I had seen some issues recently, and had wondered 
about them; I'll definitely check into this.  Thanks! - MLD

On Dec 29, 2012, at 1:47 PM, Michael McCoy <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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.