Re: [boost] Boost CMake support - Request for Comment

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost CMake support - Request for Comment
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-10-10 02:53:53

On 10/9/18 4:58 PM, Andrey Semashev via Boost wrote:
>> in reference to the check-target-builds rule. Plenty of libraries use
>> the feature during testing and I imagine that some of them may use the
>> feature during building. Asking individual libraries to convert their
>> tests or build to use some CMake equivalent, for every possible setting
>> in config and predef which they use, is not realistic. I understand that
>> CMake may have an equivalent technique, but who is going to program that
>> technique to offer all the equivalents which config and predef currently
>> offer ?

At this point I have no idea what it might take for a CMake fulfill such 
a requirement.  But of course that's not relevant at this point.

So this would be another suggested requirement:

"Build and Test should be able to adjust target requirements according 
to the test results of boost/config - similar to how boost build does 
today."

Again, This is noted.  I'll take it under advismment when I craft the 
first cut of the "scope and requirements" proposal.

Robert Ramey