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Subject: Re: [Boost-cmake] RFC: exported targets
From: Brad King (brad.king_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-10-29 15:57:56


troy d. straszheim wrote:
> Michael Jackson wrote:
>> This is THE SINGLE IMPROVEMENT someone could make for those of us
>> using CMake and are dependent on the boost libraries.
>
> I did some work on this. CMake exported targets are really cool. This
> doesn't solve the entire FindBoost.cmake problem, but it is easy.
>
> http://sodium.resophonic.com/boost-cmake/current-docs/exported_targets.html

More documentation appears here:

  http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_2.6_Notes

Of particular interest is the install(EXPORT) feature. It does for
install trees what the export() command does for build trees.

-Brad


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