AX_BOOST_THREAD
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2006-06-15

Thomas Porschberg <thomas@randspringer.de> Michael Tindal <mtindal@paradoxpoint.com>

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cryp.to ac-archive's C++ Support (released)

Test for Thread library from the Boost C++ libraries. The macro requires a preceding call to AX_BOOST_BASE. Further documentation is available at <http://randspringer.de/boost/index.html>.

This macro calls:

 AC_SUBST(BOOST_THREAD_LIB)

And sets:

 HAVE_BOOST_THREAD

AC_DEFUN([AX_BOOST_THREAD],
[
	AC_ARG_WITH([boost-thread],
	AS_HELP_STRING([--with-boost-thread@<:@=special-lib@:>@],
                   [use the Thread library from boost - it is possible to specify a certain library for the linker
                        e.g. --with-boost-thread=boost_thread-gcc-mt ]),
        [
        if test "$withval" = "no"; then
			want_boost="no"
        elif test "$withval" = "yes"; then
            want_boost="yes"
            ax_boost_user_thread_lib=""
        else
		    want_boost="yes"
        	ax_boost_user_thread_lib="$withval"
		fi
        ],
        [want_boost="no"]
	)

	if test "x$want_boost" = "xyes"; then
        AC_REQUIRE([AC_PROG_CC])
		CPPFLAGS_SAVED="$CPPFLAGS"
		CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS $BOOST_CPPFLAGS"
		export CPPFLAGS

		LDFLAGS_SAVED="$LDFLAGS"
		LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS $BOOST_LDFLAGS"
		export LDFLAGS

        AC_CACHE_CHECK(whether the Boost::Thread library is available,
					   ax_cv_boost_thread,
        [AC_LANG_PUSH([C++])
			 CXXFLAGS_SAVE=$CXXFLAGS

			 if test "x$build_os" = "xsolaris" ; then
  				 CXXFLAGS="-pthreads $CXXFLAGS"
			 elif test "x$build_os" = "xming32" ; then
				 CXXFLAGS="-mthreads $CXXFLAGS"
			 else
				CXXFLAGS="-pthread $CXXFLAGS"
			 fi
			 AC_COMPILE_IFELSE(AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[@%:@include <boost/thread/thread.hpp>]],
                                   [[boost::thread_group thrds;
                                   return 0;]]),
                   ax_cv_boost_thread=yes, ax_cv_boost_thread=no)
			 CXXFLAGS=$CXXFLAGS_SAVE
             AC_LANG_POP([C++])
		])
		if test "x$ax_cv_boost_thread" = "xyes"; then
           if test "x$build_os" = "xsolaris" ; then
			  BOOST_CPPFLAGS="-pthreads $BOOST_CPPFLAGS"
		   elif test "x$build_os" = "xming32" ; then
			  BOOST_CPPFLAGS="-mthreads $BOOST_CPPFLAGS"
		   else
			  BOOST_CPPFLAGS="-pthread $BOOST_CPPFLAGS"
		   fi

			AC_SUBST(BOOST_CPPFLAGS)

			AC_DEFINE(HAVE_BOOST_THREAD,,[define if the Boost::Date_Time library is available])
			BN=boost_thread

            if test "x$ax_boost_user_thread_lib" = "x"; then
				for ax_lib in $BN $BN-$CC $BN-$CC-mt $BN-$CC-mt-s $BN-$CC-s \
                              lib$BN lib$BN-$CC lib$BN-$CC-mt lib$BN-$CC-mt-s lib$BN-$CC-s \
                              $BN-mgw $BN-mgw $BN-mgw-mt $BN-mgw-mt-s $BN-mgw-s ; do
				    AC_CHECK_LIB($ax_lib, main, [BOOST_THREAD_LIB="-l$ax_lib" AC_SUBST(BOOST_THREAD_LIB) link_thread="yes" break],
                                 [link_thread="no"])
  				done
            else
               for ax_lib in $ax_boost_user_thread_lib $BN-$ax_boost_user_thread_lib; do
				      AC_CHECK_LIB($ax_lib, main,
                                   [BOOST_THREAD_LIB="-l$ax_lib" AC_SUBST(BOOST_THREAD_LIB) link_thread="yes" break],
                                   [link_thread="no"])
                  done

            fi
			if test "x$link_thread" = "xno"; then
				AC_MSG_ERROR(Could not link against $ax_lib !)
			fi
		fi

		CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS_SAVED"
    	LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS_SAVED"
	fi
])