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Subject: Re: [Boost-cmake] CMakeLists.txt missing copyright and licence
From: Jeremiah Willcock (jewillco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-08 09:31:06


On Sun, 31 May 2009, Vladimir Prus wrote:

> Jeremiah Willcock wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 29 May 2009, troy d. straszheim wrote:
>>
>>> Beman Dawes wrote:
>>>> This is causing lots of inspect failures. See
>>>> http://boost.cowic.de/rc/inspect-trunk.html
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to see these cleared ASAP so I can pester developers about their
>>>> real inspect problems during the bug sprint. Since some of these files are
>>>> generated automatically, the generator needs fixing too.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm getting on a plane in a few hours, will be offline, back in about 10
>>> days, sorry I can't get to this.
>>>
>>> If nobody else steps up, please feel free to just delete the CMakeLists.txt
>>> files, module.cmake files, and build/tools/CMake directory (I think that's
>>> everything)... I can readd later without much difficulty and really don't
>>> want to hold anything up. The trunk is lagging behind the release at the
>>> moment anyway.
>>
>> The CMake-based build system should not be removed, even temporarily, in
>> my opinion. Nick Edmonds and I depend on it because it is the only way to
>> run the tests for Boost.MPI
>
> I was under impression that tests for Boost.MPI are just fine with Boost.Build.
> Is that not the case?

I guess it is -- I was under the impression that they required CMake.

>> and the parallel parts of Boost.Graph.
>
> I'll port that to Boost.Build soonish (though, strictly speaking, your should have
> raised the issue of testing before merging parallel graph to trunk).

OK -- that would be good. We discussed this issue in April and never
reached a conclusion. Setting up those tests should be about the same as
doing the MPI ones.

-- Jeremiah Willcock


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