Re: [boost] [Regex] Building Boost.Regex with ICU

Subject: Re: [boost] [Regex] Building Boost.Regex with ICU
From: Artyom (artyomtnk_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-09-21 05:13:58

> > Or maybe just document or implement a  functionality that allows
> > to check existence and likability of generic  library
> > and generic header? (as I for example need iconv as  well)
> >
> > Once time pass more and more Boost libraries would  actually use
> > 3rd part components as reinventing the wheel sometimes  quite hard.
> 
> I did actually make a start at boiler plating all this so it  works more like 
> autoconf - take a look at the attached example - the thing  to look at is the 
> zlib example right at the end of the Jamfile - the rest of  the Jamfile is 
> the actual boilerplate plus some tests.  Unfortunately  there are still a few 
> warts in the code but it should give you the general  idea.
> 
> Even so, if several folks are testing for the same thing, it still  makes 
> sense to centralize the tests.
> 
> Cheers, John. 
>

Small note:

Generally it is very simple to do a standard template like:

   int main() { return 0; }

And it would fail if you would try to link with not-existing library, no need to 
specify 

anything unusual. You don't need to call any function explicitly. This is the 
way autoconf works.

Artyom