Re: [boost] [cmake] Pull request announcement

Subject: Re: [boost] [cmake] Pull request announcement
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-09-18 17:43:50

> It is very sad that cmake doesn't (AFAIK) support directory scoped target names.

It's unnecessary if you're using cmake right.

> Conditional activation is not ideal either, because at some point someone 
> probably wants to build all of boost and run all the tests together 
> (e.g. release / integration tests).

In which case have cmake execute cmake as a custom build command to
build the ctest database, and then run ctest separately.

> Prefixing everything with boost_<lib>_<target> is probably the cleanest 
> solution but annoying to type. 
> 
> Not sure if there is a better solution

The cmake idiomatic solution is to export those cmake targets from each
library which can be externally consumed, during which you can prefix
them with a namespace.

Stephen Kelly outlined all this on here many years ago. And he would
certainly know. Search the boost-dev archives.

Niall