Re: [Boost-build] Library search support?

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Library search support?
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-04-28 11:28:33

On 4/28/2010 6:46 AM, Artyom wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for library search support functionality - similar to
>
> - autoconf's AC_CHECK_LIB/AC_SEARCH_LIBS/AC_CHECK_HEADER
> or
> - CMake's FIND_LIBRARY and FIND_PATH.
>
>
> These are quite essential parts of **any** mature build system.
>
> I need this for Boost.Locale build - search for ICU.
>
> Note: Boost.Regex ICU's library search is quite broken because it searches
> for release version of ICU even under debug MSVC builds.
>
> Also the general approach is quite wrong (search for specific files for
> each platform is bad).

What's the correct approach?

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