Re: [boost] Cmake

Subject: Re: [boost] Cmake
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-06-24 17:05:03

P F wrote:
> https://github.com/pfultz2/boost-cmake-demo/tree/bcm-demo
>
> The library for Boost.System is just:
>
> bcm_boost_package(system
>   VERSION 1.64
>   SOURCES
>     src/error_code.cpp
>   DEPENDS
>     assert
>     config
>     core
>     predef
> )

This certainly looks cleaner. It needs to distinguish between public and 
private dependencies but that's easy to fix. And of course there's the 
question who will maintain the version and the dependency list.

> And this works for both `add_subdirectory` build and standalone builds.

Provided that the user has installed BCM, I presume? Because otherwise 
find_package(BCM) won't work.