Re: Adding CMakeLists.txt files

From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-05-28 11:03:17

On 5/28/21 1:58 PM, Andrey Semashev wrote:
> On 5/28/21 1:04 AM, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
>> I'm adding CMakeLists.txt files (mostly generated by
>> `boostdep --cmake <libname>` to libraries that don't
>> have one yet.
>>
>> Apologies (in advance) to all the maintainers for not
>> going through the proper procedure, but this is much
>> easier done in bulk (and order matters).
> 
> If you are auto-generating CMakeLists.txt, please, make sure that the 
> generated CMakeLists.txt replicate configuration checks that are 
> performed in the Jamfile. For example, Boost.Log has a number of 
> elaborate checks, which I don't think can be converted automatically.
> 
> If this cannot be done (and you are not willing to do this manually), 
> please, don't commit an incomplete CMakeLists.txt. In this case you 
> could create an issue to ask the maintainer for help.

Also, I wanted to thank you for doing this work. I appreciate this is 
not a trivial amount of work, and if not for this CMake adoption in 
Boost would have largely stalled.