Re: [Boost-cmake] Configuration for sonames for the boost dynamic libraries on Unix

Subject: Re: [Boost-cmake] Configuration for sonames for the boost dynamic libraries on Unix
From: Michael Jackson (mike.jackson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-10-28 15:41:16

This is THE SINGLE IMPROVEMENT someone could make for those of us  
using CMake and are dependent on the boost libraries. Finding Boost  
with CMake is historically a pain and is extremely error prone. There  
is no support for future versions in the current FindBoost. You can  
take a guess, but that is about all it is.

   If I had the time (which I don't.. ) I would add a "UseBoost.cmake"  
file that gets configured and installed with Boost. inside that file  
would be all the usual cmake variables that get set when  
FindBoost.cmake is run:

Boost_INCLUDE_DIR
Boost_LIBRARY_DIRS
Boost_PROGRAM_OPTIONS_LIBRARY
Boost_PROGRAM_OPTIONS_LIBRARY_DEBUG
Boost_PROGRAM_OPTIONS_LIBRARY_RELEASE

Boost_VERSION.. and on and on.

FindBoost.cmake boils down to looking for that file FIRST, then  
defaulting to the usual search that it currently does. Just my own  
"wish list"..

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Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson_at_[hidden]
BlueQuartz Software                    www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer                  Dayton, Ohio

On Oct 28, 2009, at 3:26 PM, troy d. straszheim wrote:

>
> Other things to think about:  pkg-config, and maybe the installation  
> of cmake files in /usr/share/boost that makes it easy to detect/use  
> the installation....   comments?