Re: [boost] [CMake] what to do now?

Subject: Re: [boost] [CMake] what to do now?
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-04-15 14:10:31

Paul Fultz II wrote:
> Because Cmake creates build artefacts when it runs, its best practice to 
> create a separate build directory to run cmake. This avoids build 
> artefacts from overwriting source files, and it makes it easier to clear 
> out the build directory(necessary sometimes). To support multiple 
> toolchains, I need to configure a build directory for each toolchain:
>
>     mkdir build-4.6 && cd build-4.6 && CXX=g++-4.6 cmake .. && cd ..
>     mkdir build-4.7 && cd build-4.7 && CXX=g++-4.7 cmake .. && cd ..
>     mkdir build-4.8 && cd build-4.8 && CXX=g++-4.8 cmake .. && cd ..
>     mkdir build-4.9 && cd build-4.9 && CXX=g++-4.9 cmake .. && cd ..
>     mkdir build-clang && cd build-clang && CXX=clang++ cmake .. && cd ..
>
> Then if I want to build the tests for each toolchain, I need to build each 
> directory:
>
>     ls -1 build-* | xargs -n1 cmake --target check --build

Boost.Build's build directory by convention is relative to Jamroot, not to 
the current directory or to the Jamfile, so it doesn't have this problem.

And a CMake-based Boost should probably also put its build directories 
outside the library root by default.