[CMake] CMakeifying Boost

[Brandon J. Van Every]

John Biddiscombe wrote:
> Brandon
>
> I'm not really interested in converting the boost maintainers to 
> cmake. I'm not at all interested in what they think about cmake 
> ("Political buy-in" is of no concern to me). I have cmakeified so many 
> projects that doing one more (even if it's quite a big one) doesn't 
> put me off. 
Hm, then I'm surprised you felt a need to ask about the level of 
difficulty. 

> (And I have the advantage that I only really care about win/linux 
> targets). The trouble is that I'm distributing source code and don't 
> want to have to distribute and install boost everywhere. or put 
> endless checks in my code to see if it's there. CMakeifying it would 
> solve my woes. Problem is it's a lot of work :(
Maybe you were just thinking out loud about what a PITA it's gonna be.  :-)


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every