On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Michael Jackson <mike.jackson@bluequartz.net> wrote:

The Boost-CMake (IMHO) sort of "abused" the cmake system somewhat in order to make it more "bjam" like.

In practice if the first pass of FindBoost.cmake does not find anything then I usually have to manually go into the CMakeCache.txt file and remove all the boost variables and re-run CMake. You can also probably do this using the CMake-Gui program.

I posted a desirement in the CMake Mantis bug tracker only to find out that all one has to do in CMake GUI is File->"Delete Cache" then config, config, generate, wait for CMake VS Macros to notice something is awry and update the pojects... I still wish there were a button. If I could get a heart rate monitor to sense my level of frustration and automatically rerun a script to delete the cache I think this would be the optimal solution.

Basically for each library, look in boost/libs/filesystem/CMakeLists.txt. That file should get you started in the right location to start trying to figure out what is going wrong.

Thanks for the words of advice I will keep hacking until I find out what I am doing wrong.

Brian