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Subject: Re: [boost] Status of the CMake-ification
From: Stephen Kelly (hello_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-11-19 15:42:12


Louis Dionne wrote:

> Thanks to everybody for the comments. I, for one, think that a first step
> can
> be achieved by providing a CMake build system for new libraries, and
> slowly porting old libraries to CMake (without removing the old
> Boost.Build, of course). One thing that I also find useful is to provide a
> FindXXX.cmake module for my library, so it can be used as an external
> dependency to any CMake-based project quite easily.

That's the wrong thing to do. Provide XXXConfig.cmake instead. See my other
mail in this thread for more.

 https://cmake.org/cmake/help/git-next/manual/cmake-packages.7.html

Thanks,

Steve.


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