Re: [Boost-users] Regex no longer builds with toolset=sun

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Regex no longer builds with toolset=sun
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-06-08 07:41:17

On 08/06/2011 05:35, Will Mason wrote:

> The thing is that I'm not trying to use xpressive; graph is. I can't
> control what graph decides that it wants to do.
>
> The somewhat annoying thing about it is that without omitting graph from
> the build, it just fails. Fortunately, I have no interest in graph, so I
> just omitted it. It would be kind of nice from the perspective of the
> user if graph would realize that it was attempting the impossible and
> that graph would just automatically be eliminated from the build with an
> appropriate warning. That kind of internal understanding of what was
> being attempted would have saved me many wasted hours. But I'm aware
> that saving me wasted time is not a high priority for you guys. :)

If Boost had a proper modular build system with dependencies, then it 
would do just that.

Some people are working on it.