Re: [boost] Boost building with CMake

From: Felipe Magno de Almeida (felipe.m.almeida_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-09 15:47:30

On 5/9/07, Michael Caisse <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> [snip]

>
> I see that I'm in a small minority (perhaps a container with size of 1) but
> this is one of the reasons that Boost.Build has made life easier for me.
> I have converted all of our internal builds to Boost.Build and am working
> with several clients doing the same.

Not at all, I'm with you.

>
> When you are building systems that are destined for multiple targets
> (compiler, OS, threading model and other variants) ... having the build
> system just handle and understand what to do without my intervention is a
> selling point. The fact that building a multi-threaded target understands
> it needs the multi-threaded library versions, where to get them, and how to
> build them if they aren't there has removed many makefile and build issues we
> ad in the past.

Same for me.

It seems boost.build is becoming a real burden on boost. I would
really like to see boost developing great tools as it develops great
libraries.

> [snip]

>
> --
>
> ----------------------------------
> Michael Caisse
> Object Modeling Designs
> www.objectmodelingdesigns.com

Best regards,
-- 
Felipe Magno de Almeida