Re: [Boost-build] Too much warning noise

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Too much warning noise
From: Mat Marcus (mat-lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-09-29 17:11:04

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 September 2008 00:22:32 Vladimir Prus wrote:
>> On Tuesday 30 September 2008 00:09:43 Mat Marcus wrote:
>>
>> > WARNING: No python installation configured and autoconfiguration
>> >          failed.  See http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/building.html
>> >          for configuration instructions or pass --without-python to
>> >          suppress this message and silently skip all Boost.Python targets
>> > 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).
>> > ...
>> > ###
>> >
>> > Conclusion: in my configuration it appears that you have successfully
>> > removed 3 out of the 14 lines of warning noise.
>>
>> Oh, there's Python, too. I'll probably have to handle it.
>
> Well, Python is scary and it's past midnight, so here's MPI instead:
>
>        http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/49032
>
> - Volodya

I think you meant changeset 49033. After applying it to the
configuration described earlier in this thread, my warning noise is
reduced to:

WARNING: No python installation configured and autoconfiguration
         failed.  See http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/building.html
         for configuration instructions or pass --without-python to
         suppress this message and silently skip all Boost.Python targets
Building Boost.Regex with the optional Unicode/ICU support disabled.
Please refer to the Boost.Regex documentation for more information

That is, 6 noise lines remain: 4 lines from Python, and 2 lines from
Regex. I consider the regex messages noise, since my library does not
depending on Regex, and my clients would rather not think about it or
ICU. In any case, thanks for the speedy patches. Is it possible, once
we eliminate all the noise, to put in a test to see that it doesn't
creep back in, in later releases?

Thanks again,
Mat