[OE-core] [PATCH 1/2] boost : Add icu to DEPENDS to fix a build failure.

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Wed Dec 7 18:23:57 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 11:49 -0500, Philip Balister wrote:
> On 12/07/2011 11:40 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 10:59 -0500, Philip Balister wrote:
> >> Part of boost needs libraries from icu. Without this, either the build or
> >> image construction fails. (I forget exactly which)
> > 
> > That is a fairly heavy dependency to add and we're not seeing builds or
> > images fail due to this being missing as far as I can tell. Do you have
> > any further information on this?
> 
> Googling gets me this page:
> 
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_41_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/ref/non_std_strings/icu/intro.html
> 
> I'm no expert at this unicode stuff, maybe we need to nuild boost
> without unicode?

That sounds preferable since I can't see how we can be using it at
present anyway. I'm hoping we can just disable that bit of boost until
somebody needs it...

Cheers,

Richard





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