[CMake] CMake used by Boost?

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Sat Mar 21 17:53:51 EDT 2009


Vladimir Prus wrote:
> On Saturday 21 March 2009 22:28:43 Piotr Dobrogost wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> On the following page
>> http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/documentation.html
>> one can read the following statement
>> "In addition many other popular open source projects use CMake such as
>> VTK, ITK, ParaView, VXL, SecondLife and Boost."
>>
>> Does Boost really use CMake and not Boost.Build as a build system?
> 
> The official way to build C++ Boost is using Boost.Build. The CMake setup
> for C++ Boost is experimental, and clearly say so if you try to use it.
> It is not decided that it will become official way to build C++ Boost.
> 
> Therefore, that page is at very least inaccurate. I would like to request
> CMake developers fix that page.
> 

Gotcha, will do.

-Bill


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