[cmake-developers] [PATCH 5/5] FindBoost.cmake: Add Boost::boost and Boost::<C> targets and documentation

Stephen Kelly steveire at gmail.com
Tue Jun 24 08:42:35 EDT 2014


Brad King wrote:

> On 06/20/2014 01:09 PM, Philipp Möller wrote:
>> +#   Boost::boost                  - interface target containing the
>> include
>> +#                                   directory
> 
> Nice.


Note that Boost upstream is modularizing and may provide CMake config files 
in the future:

 https://github.com/boost-cmake/boost-cmake
 https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/CMakeModularizationStatus

The wiki page is out of date, and so is the repo, because boost is trying to 
make a release before finishing the modularization work and it is all on-
hold for several more months.

This means:

 1) Creating a Boost::boost monolithic target may not be appropriate
 2) If FindBoost creates imported targets named Boost::*, then config files 
provided by boost upstream probably can't use that namespace (currently it 
uses boost::, but you might consider whether imported targets provided by 
files shipped with cmake should use CMake::).

Thanks,

Steve.





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