[cmake-developers] [PATCH] FindBoost: Add imported targets

[Roger Leigh]

On 18/11/2015 11:27, rleigh at codelibre.net wrote:
>> On 11/16/2015 09:26 AM, Florent Castelli wrote:
>>> But one there’s one thing that comes to mind. Some compiled libraries
>>> have dependencies on other compiled libraries.
>>> Don’t you think it would make sense to teach FindBoost about those
>>> so we link everything properly?
>>>
>>> And also maybe add the native dependencies for some modules that
>>> have one like maybe pthread or openssl.
>>> Though, this might be hard to get right in a cross platform way.
>>
>> Please look at adding these.  The imported targets should come
>> with all usage requirements as if they were provided by upstream
>> Boost.  It may be tricky to get right on all platforms but if we
>> do not do it then application code will have to do it instead.
>
> I have made a first attempt at this.  I suspect it will need some
> refinement, but hopefully useful as a starting point.  Please see the
> attached patch.  I'd certainly be very appreciative of any comments.

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Did anyone have a chance to look at this yet?  I'd very much like to get 
this to a state where it can be included.  The performance is something 
I'd like to improve, and I hope someone might have a suggestion for 
speeding up the parsing overhead.


Kind regards,
Roger