Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> On 15.12.10 21:06, xoros wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I would like to build povray 3.7 beta40 on mac osx snow leopard, but it doesn't
> > work.
> > "./configure" works without any problems, but "make" always produces the
> > following error:
> >
> > .../../source/backend/support/task.h:184: error: thread-local storage not
> > supported for this target

I ran into this too.

> This is not surprising as Apple boycotts the GPL3 versions of gcc, which
> effectively means all recent versions of gcc. What you need to do is select
> the llvm compiler that comes with the latest XCode rather than use the
> default gcc.

Could you just refactor the POV code to use boost's thread local storage
instead? Obviously more than just one person would find that helpful.

Cheers,
Edouard.

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