Re: [boost] [cmake] Minimum viable cmakeification for Boost

Subject: Re: [boost] [cmake] Minimum viable cmakeification for Boost
From: P F (pfultz2_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-06-20 13:44:16

> On Jun 20, 2017, at 7:16 AM, Peter Dimov via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
> "P F" wrote:
> 
>> So I setup a repo to build and install Boost.System as well, here:
>> 
>> https://github.com/pfultz2/boost-cmake-demo
> 
> You're listing the dependencies three times in three separate locations, which will be error-prone and is harder to automate (unless the whole CMakeLists.txt is generated with boostdep.)

I agree, which is why I wrote BCM to take care of this part.  Especially, since without it, there would be another list of dependencies to support pkgconfig.

> 
> You should be able to have dependencies.cmake with
> 
> some_macro(dep1)
> some_macro(dep2)
> 
> (or some_function) and then use that appropriately in CMakeLists. 

Ideally, I can just create a list with dependencies and then iterate over them. I’ll try to add that to the repo.