Re: [jamboost] Boost.Regex and warnings in general

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-22 12:09:36

> recently, whenever I run "bjam", I get this:

You mean whenever you build regex or something that depends upon it, not 
whenever bjam is run I presume.

> ******************************************************
>
> Building Boost.Regex with Unicode/ICU support disabled.
> HINT: define the environment variable ICU_PATH to point to the
> root directy of your ICU installation if you have one.
> Couldn't find utypes.h in
>
> ******************************************************
>
>
> Now, I don't have ICU installed, and don't want to install. How do I 
> disable
> the above warning?

At the moment you can't, I just followed what Boost.Python does.

> In general, we need some consistent policy about warning messages emitted 
> by
> Boost.Build and Jamfiles. I'd favour either one-line warnings, or no 
> warnings
> at all, because I don't see any obvious way to disable the warnings.
>
> Comments?

If no message is output, it's rather a disservice to someone installing 
Boost who would want to know that there are (optional) external 
dependencies.

John.