[CMake] Patch to FindBoost.cmake.

[Mike Jackson]

On Jul 24, 2007, at 8:29 AM, Andreas Schneider wrote:

> Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>> On 24.07.07 07:35:34, gga wrote:
>>> Andreas Schneider wrote:
>>>> I've rewritten the FindBoost.cmake from scratch some time ago.  
>>>> And we
>>>> have improved it at OpenWengo. I suggest to ship this version in  
>>>> CMake.
>>>>
>>>> http://cmake-modules.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Modules/Boost/ 
>>>> FindBoost.cmake
>>>>
>>> +1 for this.  This is without a doubt the best FindBoost.cmake  
>>> I've seen
>>> so far.
>>
>> Looks pretty good and would obsolete the FindBoostLibs.cmake in KDE's
>> kdevplatform module. There's only one thing I miss: Documentation for
>> the individual
>>
>> BOOST_FOO_LIBRARY
>>
>> variables, I don't think many people want to link against _all_ boost
>> libs.
>
> Committed :)
>
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>
> 	-- andreas
>
> -- 
> http://www.cynapses.org/ - cybernetic synapses
>

I had my own home grown FindBoost.cmake that I have been using but I  
wanted to start using someone elses in the hopes that it would get  
put into the cmake distribution.. I was looking at the above  
FindBoost.cmake and the thing that I seemed to have noticed was that  
my app would end up linking against ALL the boost libraries. I  
usually only link against 3 of them..

In my original module I had it setup so I had command like the  
following:

# ----------- Find the Boost stuff
SET (Boost_USE_UNIT_TEST_FRAMEWORK TRUE)
SET (Boost_USE_TEST_EXEC_MONITOR TRUE)
INCLUDE(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/../../Resources/FindBoost.cmake)
LINK_DIRECTORIES(${Boost_LIBRARY_DIR})
....
ADD_EXECUTABLE( XMLTest ${XML_TEST_SRCS} )
TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES (XMLTest ${Boost_LIBRARIES} )

which would let me only link against the libraries that I choose.  Is  
this something that the maintainers would consider implementing? I  
can probably add it and submit an update FindBoost.cmake if needed?
  Or if not (code style?) why not?

Thanks
-- 
Mike Jackson   Senior Research Engineer
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