I am trying to compile boost regex with icu. The icu library is placed in a non-standard place, so I have set the appropriate environment variable.
However everytime I run bjam, console output (amongst many thing) says - has_icu builds : no
I have invoked bjam with -sBOOST_HAS_ICU=1. No luck picking icu. I have invoked bjam with -sICU_PATH=/home/xxx/yyy, and no luck either.
OTOH, if I go to the subdirectory : libs/regex/build and do 'make -f gcc.mak' It builds with -DBOOST_HAVE_ICU=1 and with the right icu include directory in the compile line.
I am new to compiling boost, and would love to find out what is going on. And how can I rectify it.
Take a look in boost-path/bin.v2/config.log and you'll see the actual error messages and the command lines used, which should give you a hint. You could also try: bjam include=path-to-icu-headers linkflags=extra-linker-flags-required HTH, John.