Re: [boost] Proposal for moving Boost to CMake

Subject: Re: [boost] Proposal for moving Boost to CMake
From: Olaf van der Spek (ml_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-06-19 08:58:12

On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 3:36 PM, P F via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> It would be nice to not just support cmake, but pkgconfig as well. There are many times I need to use boost in non-cmake projects, so having pkgconfig would be helpful as well.

I don't really get find_package and pkgconfig etc.

I use package management to install the dependencies I need.
I then include and link to the stuff I need. It'd be nice if the
linking was automatic like it is on MSVC but okay.

Why does one need all kinds of extra complexity in every single make
file for things like find_package or pkgconfig?

-- 
Olaf