[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/boost: disable boost-locale for static only build

[Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>]

Hi Yegor,

Le 15/05/2017 ? 10:30, Yegor Yefremov a ?crit :
> Hi Romain,
> 
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
> <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Sun, 14 May 2017 23:45:56 +0200, Romain Naour wrote:
>>
>>> diff --git a/package/boost/Config.in b/package/boost/Config.in
>>> index 9825c09..6ffa8f0 100644
>>> --- a/package/boost/Config.in
>>> +++ b/package/boost/Config.in
>>> @@ -98,8 +98,15 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_IOSTREAMS
>>>
>>>  config BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST_LOCALE
>>>       bool "boost-locale"
>>> +     # boost-locale build system try to link dynamically with icu
>>> +     # see <link>shared and <runtime-link>shared in locale/build/Jamfile.v2
>>> +     # Related to https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9685
>>> +     depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS
>>>       select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBICONV if !BR2_ENABLE_LOCALE
>>
>> OK, but doesn't the problem occurs only when icu is enabled? Do we want
>> to prevent from using boost-locale in static linking situations in all
>> cases, or only when combined with icu?
>>
>> Perhaps we should keep it simple and do like you suggest, i.e make it
>> unavailable for all static linking configurations, regardless of icu
>> availability. I'm just trying to figure out the best/right approach
>> between yours and the one proposed by Yegor.
> 
> Have you also tested regex module? It seems to have the same
> structure/dependencies as locale module.

Yes, the boost-regex module was still selected when I disabled boost-locale and
rebuilt boost package (after a boost-dirclean).

Maybe I missed something, please share a defconfig if you're able to trigger the
issue with boost-regex :)

Best regards,
Romain

> 
> Yegor
>