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Why BOOST_HAS_THREADS is not defined

I've got a question on Sun C++ forum why BOOST_HAS_THREADS is not defined explicitly in the sunpro_cc.hpp. The answer can be found just by grep on Boost source code but I decide to put explanation here.

Let's look at the piece of boost/config/suffix.hpp: 

#if (defined(__MT__) || defined(_MT) || defined(_REENTRANT) \
    || defined(_PTHREADS)) && !defined(BOOST_HAS_THREADS)
#  define BOOST_HAS_THREADS
#endif

When you compile multithread application you should use -mt command line option. This option implicitly defines _REENTRANT so Boost defines BOOST_HAS_THREADS automatically. You can check it by hand: 

% cat test.cc
#include <boost/thread.hpp>

#ifdef BOOST_HAS_THREADS
#error BOOST_HAS_THREADS is defined
#endif

% CC -mt -I$HOME/storage/boost_1_32_0 -c test.cc
"test.cc", line 4: Error: #error BOOST_HAS_THREADS is defined.

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