Re: [Boost-users] How to disable the check or the error after checking for ICU (for regex lib) when building boost ?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] How to disable the check or the error after checking for ICU (for regex lib) when building boost ?
From: Timothy Madden (terminatorul_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-09-04 04:47:59

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>>>>>>
>>>>>> Maybe cl.exe somehow feels it is invoked from a subprocess of VS, or
>>>>>> sees some environment variables, and knows how to output the message ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, it's watching for VS_UNICODE_OUTPUT environment variable.
>>>>> http://connect.microsoft.com/MSDNProductFeedbackCenterRedirect.aspx?pfcId=FDBK33583
>>>>
>>>> Excelent !
>>>>
>>>> I was still getting this problem with boost 1.44, so thank you for this
>>>> information. Could boost better documented this somewhere ?
>>>>
>>>> Better yet, could the regex build process start by unsetting this
>>>> variable ? Should I report this somewhere ?
>>>
>>> Do you always get those messages, or only when building a fresh tree for the
>>> first time?
>>
>> The project pre-build event that I set up unpacks and compiles a boost
>> release archive, that I place on source control as part of the project
>> files, so I always compile a fresh tree.
>
> Ah, this explains. Can you arrange for<boost-root>/bin.v2 directory
> to be created before you try to build boost. 1.44 has a bug whereby
> config log is written to<boost-root>/bin.v2/config.log, but the
> directory is not created.

I tried to interrupt the build process and start it again. The bin.v2 
directory was there, but still no use ...