Re: [boost] Boost building with CMake

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-12 21:23:26

on Sat May 12 2007, "Douglas Gregor" <dgregor-AT-cs.indiana.edu> wrote:

>> In January I moved a moderate-sized commercial project from Makefiles to
>> CMake.
>
> Thank you for the experience report. It's very valuable to us when
> assessing our options for Boost.
>> The real rough spots are documentation, and the lack of clear standard
>> usage.
>>
>> CMake documentation is confusing.  CMake has been a moving (improving)
>> target
>> during the past couple years.  As a result, there seems to be a lot of
>> conflicting documentation floating around.
>
> Did you rely on the online documentation, or did you also buy the book,
> "Mastering CMake"?

According to what Bill Hoffman told me, part of the reason the docs
are confusing is that the book is outdated.

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