On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 06:27:07AM +0800, Tinker wrote: > Wait, in the interim, the brave user who wants ICU support system-wide now, > and who has ICU already installed in the system, can just switch the > "--without-icu" part to "--with-icu" in /usr/ports/devel/boost/Makefile , > and do "make; make install" right?
$ make clean=all $ make $ make fake $ make port-lib-depends-check # fix WANTLIB $ make update-plist $ make reinstall > > > That will not break binary compatibility with precompiled packages, the only > thing would be that if some package is specifically incompatible with > Boost's ICU support, it'd go into undefined behavior, right? > > > On 2015-12-17 02:40, Landry Breuil wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 01:40:47PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > >>On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 01:32:21PM +0100, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas > >>wrote: > >>> Tinker <ti...@openmailbox.org> writes: > >>> > >>> > On 2015-12-16 05:04, j...@wxcvbn.org wrote: > >>> >> Tinker <ti...@openmailbox.org> writes: > >>> >> > >>> >>> What would the decision be based on? > >>> >> > >>> >> I think that those points should be enough. > >>> >> - good reasons to use ICU in boost, not just "I need the ICU parts of > >>> >> Boost.". What would be the benefit for the ports tree? > >>> > > >>> > I need normalize() to do Unicode normalization! > >>> > >>> I'm glad to hear that you want to do Unicode normalization using ICU, > >>> that is not a valid answer to what I said above. > >>> > >>> We have one report here: > >>> > >>> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=144171504417490&w=2 > >>> > >>> jirib didn't confirm that ICU was the only thing needed to make his > >>> aegisub port work, and to my knowledge no existing port requires ICU in > >>> boost. The only benefit I can see so far is to have a boost package > >>> similar to other distros. > >> > >>I wonder if adding ICU support to boost would unbreak manik. > > > >On that topic i've filed https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/3202 > >upstream but didnt thought about that boost/icu thing. > > > >Either way, touching boost... here be dragons. > > > >Landry > -- Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info
