Re: [boost] Boost.CMake status update

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost.CMake status update
From: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard (jeremy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-04-05 17:47:28

On 03/30/2011 03:48 PM, Daniel Pfeifer wrote:
[snip]

> When Boost is installed with an installer that was built with
> Boost.CMake, it gets installed as a "CMake Package" and can be found by
> the `find_package()` command in "config mode" (more about this mode:
> http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake-2-8-docs.html#command:find_package).

Perhaps support can also be added for generating the seemingly much more 
standard (at least on Linux) pkgconfig format files, which can be used 
more easily with virtually any build system, rather than just CMake. 
(Possibly CMake could just use the pkgconfig files as well.)