Re: [boost] Boost building with CMake

From: Dean Michael Berris (mikhailberis_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-16 18:06:38

On 5/16/07, Douglas Gregor <doug.gregor_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> On May 16, 2007, at 12:46 PM, Dean Michael Berris wrote:
> >
> > Someone (John Maddock I think) suggested we use something like a
> > ./configure script which actually configured BBv2 for you -- i.e.
> > edited your site-config.jam and/or user-config.jam file setting the
> > correct/detected/configured toolkits. Might be worth looking at, and
> > might even be interactive (Python anyone? ;) ).
>
> I wrote such a script, and it's there in $BOOST_ROOT. It only works
> on Unix-like systems, but it handles the simplest cases very well.
>

Cool! Thanks for the heads up Doug!

Might be worth noting in the Getting Started document's section for
Unix-like systems... Dave, what do you think?

This begs the question though, how hard would it be to come up with
something like this for other OSes (Windows, etc.) ?

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