Re: [Boost-users] Boost.Locale build missing usage-requirements

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost.Locale build missing usage-requirements
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-11-18 09:30:22

AMDG

On 11/17/2011 09:08 PM, Alexey Badyaev wrote:
> Library "Locale" from "Boost C++ Libraries" package has Jamfile.v2 in
> folder "build". Target "boost_locale" of library in that jam-file
> defined see below:
> 
> lib boost_locale
>     :
>         <snip>
>     ;
> 
> You can see: usage-requirements of target is not defined, and user of
> library must define symbol BOOST_LOCALE_DYN_LINK=1 in own project....
> I wrote email to author of library (Artyom Beilis), but he reject my
> proposal of add usage-requirements to lib target.
> May anybody with right-access to boost repository fix this???

Unless the only reason he rejected it is that
he didn't want to take the time to implement
it, no one here is going to step on another
library author's toes like that.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe