Re: [boost] CMake and library requirements

Subject: Re: [boost] CMake and library requirements
From: troy d. straszheim (troy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-21 13:32:43

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Looking at:
> 
>    http://www.boost.org/development/requirements.html#Directory_structure
> 

Hrm, somehow we missed that.

> I see that sub-directory 'build' should contain 
> 'Library build files such as a Jamfile'. In SVN HEAD I also see:
> 
>    libs/program_options/CMakeLists.txt
> 
> Now, cmake is clearly build system, so that file is in violation of the
> above guideline. May I ask to either:
> 
> 1. Have cmake folks to fix this?
> 2. Have the guideline adjusted, with associated moving of Jamfiles out of
> 'build' directory and removal of 'build' directories that become empty
> as result?
> 
> The background is that I plan some work that might require adding Jamfiles
> for header-only libraries and clearly having Jamfiles in build subdir while
> having CMakeLists.txt one directory higher is gonna be mightly confusing.
> 

I'd vote for moving Jamfiles up to libs/*/Jamfile.v2, not because I'm 
unwilling to do some typing, but because cmake of the way cmake works... 
it'd be painful.  But I could look harder at this if necessary.

-t