[CMake] CMakeifying Boost

[Brad King]

Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> John Biddiscombe wrote:
>> I've used boost a lot, but never spent much time looking at the 
>> configuration or build. Has anyone given much though to how hard it'd 
>> be to CMakeify Boost?
>> (And even if the boost maintainers aren't interested in using CMake, 
>> we could put together a distro once every few months with a latest 
>> release...)
> 
> Judging by my difficulties getting Chicken to build, it'll be impossible 
> without the CVS version of CMake.  You are going to need the features 
> and bugfixes of CMake 2.3.

I had alot of boost building with CMake 3 or 4 years ago with alot fewer 
features than we have now.  I wrote the files just to get a dashboard 
running for a demo and have long since lost them.  You shouldn't have 
much trouble getting it going.

-Brad