Re: [Boost-build] Don't Panic ?

From: Emil Dotchevski (emildotchevski_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-06 14:40:56

John Maddock wrote:
> Robert Ramey wrote:
>> Every time I use bjam for anything regardless of whether or not it
>> has anything to do with regex, I get the following message:
>>
>> Building Boost.Regex with the optional Unicode/ICU support disabled.
>> Please refer to the Boost.Regex documentation for more information
>> (don't panic: this is a strictly optional feature).
>>
>> I'm not panicing - but it is annoying and distracting and really
>> out of place.
>
> I agree, and I put the message there!
>
> The problem is that for some reason Boost.Build seems to want to
> include the Jamfiles of all the libraries with separate source,
> regardless of whether
> they're being used or not.  The same warning (and basivcally the same
> code
> to generate it) was present in BBv1, but that didn't try and parse
> that
> Jamfile with every build!
>
> Vladimir: is there a better way to deal with this so the warning is
> only
> emitted when regex is actually being built?
>
> John.
>
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Even when I'm using Boost.Regex, I find it annoying to see this message 
every time I build. In my opinion the existance of the optional Unicode/ICU 
support should be mentioned in a FAQ list with the library documentation, 
not in a build script message.

Emil Dotchevski
http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode