Re: [Boost-users] Boost.Regex and static ICU libraries

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-14 15:30:09

> Now I have a more general question, not necessarily connected with
> Boost.Regex. I searched for such Bjam information, but couldn't
> easily find anything, so I thought I'd use this opportunity to ask.
>
> On a related note, if what is to be built using the bjam command that
> you kindly provided below is not just the Boost.Regex project but the
> entire Boost, is there a way to confine the definition to the
> Boost.Regex-related parts? This is to avoid any possible unwanted
> side-effects in other Boost projects also expecting this particular
> definition (of course, this is very highly unlikely, but maybe Boost
> is complex enough, so it's good to aim to avoid such a possibility).
> As you have kindly written, one can edit boost/regex/user.hpp. This
> would produce the desired result -- confining the define only to the
> Boost.Regex related parts even when the entire Boost is built. But
> considering that editing source code should be avoided if possible,
> is there another way? Providing an extra bjam configuration file or
> something like this?

Passing --with-regex restricts the build to just Boost.Regex, 
while --without-regex would build everything except Boost.Regex.  This 
should all be listed along with all the other options if you do a

bjam --help

in the Boost root directory.

HTH, John.