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Subject: Re: [Boost-cmake] CMake modularization update
From: Doug Gregor (doug.gregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-10-31 17:26:58


On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Michael Jackson
<mike.jackson_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> On Oct 31, 2008, at 2:16 PM, Doug Gregor wrote:
>
>>>>>
>>>>> What I am not sure of is what to do with the remaining headers in the
>>>>> "boost" directory. Are those going to be the "core" of Boost or ?
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, that's how I would do it.
>>>
>>> So are talking about modularizing what is left into "libs/core" then? I
>>> just
>>> want to be really clear and certain before I make that move.
>>
>> Sorry, I was very unclear. I would like the remaining libs (mpl,
>> type_traits, config, and whatever else is in that tangle)
>> unmodularized for now. There *are* circular dependencies at the
>> library level and they aren't trivial to untangle. It's better for the
>> CMake effort to leave those in the non-modularized core and let the
>> library authors sort out the dependencies later.
>
>
> How my working directory stands now is that all the libraries are
> modularized.
>
> The problem I know have is that according to the generated dependency graph
> there is only 1 circular between date_time, algorithm and regex.
>
> MPL, Type_Traits and such _seem_ to be ok but I think that is probably a
> false report going on what you guys are telling me.

If you enable testing, does "make check" run cleanly? On Mac OS X, it should.

  - Doug


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