Re: [boost] [cmake] Pull request announcement

Subject: Re: [boost] [cmake] Pull request announcement
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-09-14 16:24:47

mike wrote:

> We are talking about 5-10 lines of cmake code + one line per dependency 
> (the way I tend to format them).

I suggest you use my approach of including cmake/dependencies.cmake, which 
is generated by `boostdep --cmake <libname>`. See f.ex.

https://github.com/pdimov/boost-cmake-demo/blob/master/libs/system/cmake/dependencies.cmake
https://github.com/pdimov/boost-cmake-demo/blob/master/libs/system/cmake/default.cmake#L41-L53 
(except without 45-49)

This would allow CMakeLists.txt to stay the same if dependencies change; it 
also allows overwriting dependencies.cmake wholesale, something that could 
potentially be automated in the future.

I (somewhat arbitrarily) chose to use boost::libname as imported target 
name, not sure if Boost:: is better.