Forum: GNU Radio Runtime error from boost 1.52 issue on OSX

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

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

After a bit of sleuthing, it turns out that this was a general Boost 
issue, not just on OSX, discussed on their email list here < 
http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/thread-thread-j... 
>, in their tickets here < https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7669 
>, and fixed waiting for 1.53 to be released < 
https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/81667 >.  So, we don't want 
to be using Boost 1.52 with GNU Radio.  Any (other) GR developer want to 
block it in the CMake build system? - MLD

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Michael Dickens <mlk@alum.mit.edu> 
wrote:


> After a bit of sleuthing, it turns out that this was a general Boost
> issue, not just on OSX, discussed on their email list here <
> 
http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/thread-thread-j..., 
in their tickets here <
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7669 >, and fixed waiting for
> 1.53 to be released < https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/81667 >.
>  So, we don't want to be using Boost 1.52 with GNU Radio.  Any (other) GR
> developer want to block it in the CMake build system? - MLD
>

I'll take care of this, thanks for checking it out.

Johnathan