Re: [Boost-build] Library search support?

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Library search support?
From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-04-28 11:29:02

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).

Could you clarify what you mean? cmake does pretty much the same -- search
for files with certain names in certain directories.

> Any progress with it, any chance to get it in Boost-Build?

I'm almost done with coding a canonical solution for this problem (which
happens to be zlib support at present). Sorry for real-life-induced delay.

- Volodya