[CMake] FIND_LIBRARY in FindBoost finds wrong library

[Michael Jackson]

I thought there was now an option the boost build system to NOT add  
all the "very specific" naming of each library which is now the  
default. There is a way to turn that back on. You will have to search  
through the boost-build docs for that info.

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Mike Jackson                      www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer       mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
BlueQuartz Software               Dayton, Ohio


On Mar 18, 2010, at 9:47 AM, Marcel Loose wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I ran into a problem with FindBoost where it fails to find the correct
> version of a component library. The cause is pretty clear to me.
>
> There's a system-wide (rather old) version of Boost installed and
> there's my latest-greatest version of Boost. The FindBoost macro
> searches for a library using rather specific names first and generic
> names last. These are all listed under NAMES. FIND_LIBRARY() tries to
> find each name in all paths specified under PATHS.
>
> Problem is that (for reasons I do not really know) the very specific
> library name is not present in my latest-greatest directory, but it IS
> present in /usr/lib.
>
> This problem is closely related to a post on this list a couple of
> months ago: http://www.mail-archive.com/cmake@cmake.org/msg24565.html
> Unfortunately, no-one ever replied to that post.
>
> Basically, the author of that post suggested to turn the loop in
> cmFindLibraryCommand::FindNormalLibrary() inside out: i.e.
> for(path in paths)
> {
>  for(name in names)
>  {
>    find name in path;
>    if found return name;
>  }
> }
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>
> Best regards,
> Marcel Loose.
>
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