Re: [Boost-build] [boostorg/python] Building against multiple python implementations broken on 1.70 (#262)

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] [boostorg/python] Building against multiple python implementations broken on 1.70 (#262)
From: Stefan Seefeld (stefan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-04-15 00:20:16

On 2019-04-14 7:50 p.m., Peter Dimov wrote:
>
> I'll need to look into this. Apparently, |FindBoost.cmake| solves this 
> by forcing the user to specify the version in |find_package(Boost 
> COMPONENTS python27)|, but the CMake configuration files installed by 
> 1.70 only take |find_package(Boost COMPONENTS python)|, so multiple 
> versions installed at the same time are a problem.
>
> In the meantime, you can add |--no-cmake-config| to your |b2 install| 
> command line to skip the installation of CMake configuration files, 
> which ought to give you the 1.69 behavior back.
>
This is *exactly* the kind of situation I was afraid of when I argued 
strongly against adding CMake support to my own projects: Before I had 
to deal with B2 issues that I had difficulties resolving myself. Now I 
have to deal with B2 *and* CMake issues, being even more dependent on 
others.

That's not my definition of progress.

Stefan
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