Re: [boost] Fwd: Installing CMake configuration files

Subject: Re: [boost] Fwd: Installing CMake configuration files
From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-10-20 19:17:35

Steven Watanabe wrote:
> > 3. Old-school buildable libraries. These have a dependency on 
> > /boost/headers.
> >
> > 4. Newfangled buildable libraries. These enumerate all of their 
> > dependencies in their Jamfile, including type 2 header-only ones. If 
> > they use no type 1 libraries, they don't need a dependency on 
> > /boost/headers, and don't need the header links.
>
>
> I mostly agree with you, except for one issue:  This is severely 
> complicated by the fact that the dependency on
headers is currently implicit.  How are we going to distinguish (3) from 
(4)?  If we're making incremental updates, then we can't make any changes at 
all to the old-school libraries, so we can't rely on them telling us that 
they need /boost/headers.

There aren't that many type 3 libraries, and they already have 
build/Jamfiles, so making the dependency explicit for type 3 is feasible. We 
can just add it to them.

Testing might be a problem. test/Jamfile for header-only type 1 libraries 
needs the implicit headers too. Still doable though.