Re: [Boost-users] [Regex] Cannot build Regex without ICU

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Regex] Cannot build Regex without ICU
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-02-26 10:44:10

AMDG

On 02/26/2015 08:33 AM, Rob Desbois wrote:
> I want to build the Boost libs without ICU support in Regex, but have been
> unable to prevent it from being linked in.
> 
> I've run the following commands on a freshly extracted distribution of 1.57:
>     ./bootstrap.sh --without-icu
> --prefix=/home/rob/workspace/deps/boost/1.57.0/linux/x64/
>     ./b2 install
> 
> The bootstrap stage output includes this, which seems to indicate it's
> behaving correctly:
>     Unicode/ICU support for Boost.Regex?... disabled.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> I know the docs for Boost.Regex specify the bootstrap argument as
> --disable-icu, however this is rejected as invalid, unlike the argument I
> provide.
> 
> Have I messed up somewhere or is this a bug?
> 

You need to pass --disable-icu to b2.
It looks like the bootstrap script doesn't
record --without-icu in a way that the
regex build understands.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe