Re: [boost] [Release] Boost 1.70.0 Beta 1 Release Candidate 2

Subject: Re: [boost] [Release] Boost 1.70.0 Beta 1 Release Candidate 2
From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-03-12 01:03:44

Steven Watanabe wrote:

> Also, checking ZLIB_SOURCE is wrong, because the path can also be 
> specified in user-config.jam.

Yes, in principle. It's still significantly less wrong than it was.

I'll need to try and see what happens with <source> in user-config. Probably 
nothing good, because one would expect neither <build-name> nor <tag> to be 
specified in such a case.

> We still need to indicate the dependency on zlib somehow, right.  If we 
> don't create a boost_zlib.cmake file, then we'll need 
> find_dependency(ZLIB) or something similar.

Yes, I had to hack around this by doing

https://github.com/boostorg/boost_install/commit/cf4b78006e8f22fb883ad56ce58d67eef0a2e115