[CMake] FindBoost Warnings

Roger Leigh rleigh at codelibre.net
Mon Sep 23 09:14:50 EDT 2019


On 23/09/2019 14:05, Brad Bell wrote:

> When the target system does not have boost, the user gets the warning:
>
> CMake Warning at /usr/share/cmake-3.10/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:567 
> (message):
>   Imported targets and dependency information not available for Boost 
> version
>   (all versions older than 1.33)
> Call Stack (most recent call first):
>   /usr/share/cmake-3.10/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:907 
> (_Boost_COMPONENT_DEPENDENCIES)
>   /usr/share/cmake-3.10/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:1558 
> (_Boost_MISSING_DEPENDENCIES)
>   CMakeLists.txt:245 (FIND_PACKAGE)
>
> This is not a problem because if the user's system does not have boost,
> they will no be using the case that the examples cover.
>
> How do I suppress this warning ?

I think it's already fixed in more recent CMake versions.  It now only 
prints that message when Boost is found, and older than 1.33.


Regards,

Roger



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