[boost] [1.48.0] Beta 1 release candidates available

Subject: [boost] [1.48.0] Beta 1 release candidates available
From: Martin Elzen (martinelzen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-10-26 19:17:59

Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Release candidate files for 1.48.0 beta 1 are available at
> http://boost.cowic.de/rc/
> 
> As always, the release managers would appreciate it if you download
> the candidate of your choice and give building it a try. Please report
> both success and failure, and anything else that is noteworthy.

On Ubuntu 11.10 amd64 with g++ (and gcc) 4.6.1, I built  ICU 4.8.1 with almost all default options except for specifying a non-default installation dir.  Then I created the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable and set it to the lib dir of that new ICU installation *but did not* also create an ICU_PATH environment variable.  Then I ran the boost bootstrap.sh script with a '--with-icu=/home/martin/app/icu/installation' parameter.  The output of the b2 contained (among other things) the following bits about ICU:
     - has_icu builds           : yes
...
    - icu                      : no
    - icu (lib64)              : no

Which led me to expect that the boost regex libs would end up referencing the Ubuntu default ICU libs (which was not what I wanted to do).  But they didn't, instead they *did* correctly reference the newly built ICU libraries (or at least that's how I'm interpreting the output of ldd against libboost_regex.so ).  Which is nice, but doesn't that also mean that the docs in Boost regex about the ICU_PATH environment variable might need some revision?  Or did I just luck out somehow?