Le Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:41:59 +1000, Chris Cason a modifié des petits
morceaux de l'univers pour nous faire lire :

> Le Forgeron wrote:
>> Which part, please, as boost is really a huge collection of parts ?
>> thread ? mutex ? other ?
> 
> The windows readme goes into this a little bit with respect to boost
> 1.35 (I wasn't aware of 1.36). Basically it's a change in thread; I'm
> not sure of the impact since I've not tested it - I'm simply playing
> safe.
> 
> I will update the source to suit the new boost soon.

Good. May be it will solve the random concurrent access lock that I can 
still observe at some very rare time (25b with workaround for starting 
thread applied, on linux source): the rendering window appears, stay 
black, and nothing seems to happened until the mouse enter the rendering 
window (command line of povray process remains suspended, despite the 
rendering not occuring (or already done)); That bug seems not 
reproductible, but it occurs with 25b++ on both amd64/64bit & xeon 
systems (both on which I tried rendering the portfolio and other pictures 
from the sources). 
In fact, for the xeon, as it is a remote system, even mousing into the 
rendering window did not unlock the process. Might occurs once or twice 
for all the provided scenes (and ramdomly: does not seem to be a 
particular scene, usually it works fine, and then, that time, it fails).
I did not try to disable the rendering window, sorry.

(that Xeon is Linux RedHat ES 5 (quad-core), AMD64 is Linux gentoo 
(single core)... i have also access to some sparc-solaris (2.9 & 2.10) & 
RedHat ES 4, if necessary)

> 
>> It really does not matter, as the available unix source code is late
>> (still at 25b, whereas 28 is available for Windows binary since...)
> 
> our Linux guys seem to be doing other stuff these days. I will do a
> Linux source release myself (but it will just be the last source release
> combined with updated .cpp and .h files; I can't reliably update any
> other part of it such as makefiles and whatnot since I don't know enough
> about it).

Thank you. If you need my help for unix, feel free to ask mine.

Post a reply to this message