[cmake-developers] [PATCH] FindBoost does not detect absence of header file

[Roger Leigh]

On 11/05/2016 19:43, rleigh at codelibre.net wrote:
> On 2016-05-11 19:30, Chuck Atkins wrote:
>> I guess it doesn't really matter but for the libraries that don't have
>> a single include header, should you be using these instead:
>>
>>     * container/container_fwd.hpp
>>     * exception/all.hpp
>>     * filesystem.hpp
>>     * math_fwd.hpp (instead of math/quaternion.hpp)
>>     * system/config.hpp
>>     * type_erasure/config.hpp
>>
>> They're "common" or "central" headers for the libraries instead of
>> specific headers.
>
> Thanks for taking a look and making the suggestions.  I'll certainly
> update some of these.  However, note that for some of these (e.g.
> exception, filesystem), that common header didn't exist in earlier
> releases and so was deliberately not used; in these cases I picked a
> common header which is present in *all* Boost releases, back to 1.33
> except for components which were introduced in later releases.
> filesystem.hpp was introduced after the initial release with filesytem,
> likewise exception/all.hpp for exception.

I have made the suggested changes above where this was possible, and 
merged the boost-component-headers branch into next for testing.


Regards,
Roger