Re: [boost] [cmake] Pull request announcement

Subject: Re: [boost] [cmake] Pull request announcement
From: Richard (legalize_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-09-18 20:31:17

In article <b7d4fa59-da0a-74c9-4855-ea0991d9aa53_at_[hidden]>,
    Roger Leigh via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On 14/09/18 15:05, Alexander Grund via Boost wrote:
> > The major problem I see are the variants.
> > 
> > - b2 can build multiple variants in one go (static, dynamic, runtimes...)
> > - Encoding these variants has to be reflected in the target names/aliases
> 
> CMake fundamentally doesn't work this way.  Nor do any other build 
> systems I'm aware of.  It's unique to b2.  I do not think it useful to 
> require this of any replacement build system in consequence.  Especially 
> when it's an initial minimalistic support as proposed here.

+1

> [...]  Am I the only one who 
> suffers so much from it having to integrate it with other systems on 
> multiple platforms?

Nope.  Been there, done that.
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