[cmake-developers] [CMake 0016020]: FindBoost "Automatically add missing component dependencies" fails with header-only libraries

Mon Mar 14 22:00:22 EDT 2016

The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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https://cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=16020 
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Reported By:                Tom Jakubowski
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   16020
Category:                   CMake
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2016-03-14 22:00 EDT
Last Modified:              2016-03-14 22:00 EDT
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Summary:                    FindBoost "Automatically add missing component
dependencies" fails with header-only libraries
Description: 
If only some separately-compiled Boost libraries are installed, so that Boost
components like Boost.Atomic and Boost.DateTime are used header-only,
find_package(Boost REQUIRED COMPONENTS thread) will fail with:

    :1647 (message):
      Unable to find the requested Boost libraries.

      Boost version: 1.56.0

      Boost include path: /opt/foo/deps-64-10/include

      Could not find the following Boost libraries:

              boost_atomic
              boost_chrono
              boost_date_time

If a full installation of Boost 1.56, with all optional separately-compiled
libraries, is used instead, then the FindBoost() call succeeds.

This is a regression from CMake 3.4. It seems like
https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/commit/01c80acdbdadf3811bc0a6cab0c28469a4e9f5b7
is probably responsible.

Also related to bug 15767.
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Issue History 
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2016-03-14 22:00 Tom Jakubowski New Issue                                    
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