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0011192CMakeModulespublic2010-08-31 02:022010-11-09 22:56
ReporterRaymond Wan 
Assigned ToPhilip Lowman 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
StatusclosedResolutionfixed 
PlatformOSOS Version
Product VersionCMake-2-8 
Target VersionCMake 2.8.3Fixed in VersionCMake 2.8.3 
Summary0011192: FindBoost expects hyphen in directory name when it should be an underscore
DescriptionI can't seem to find this reported elsewhere, but the Boost libraries cannot be found under Linux (Debian). After specifying -D Boost_DEBUG=ON, I realized it is searching in these paths:

-- [ /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:500 ] _boost_PATH_SUFFIXES = boost-1_42;boost-1_42_0;boost-1_41_0;boost-1_41;boost-1_40_0;boost-1_40;boost-1_39_0;boost-1_39;boost-1_38_0;boost-1_38;boost-1_37_0;boost-1_37;boost-1_36_1;boost-1_36_0;boost-1_36

However, if you download v1.42 (and also the current 1.44 -- I just checked) as a .tar.gz file, it gets installed in boost_1_42_0. i.e., the first dash should be an underscore.
Additional InformationI fixed the problem for myself by symlinking /usr/local/boost_1_42_0 to /usr/local/boost-1_42_0.

Unless Boost is inconsistent with its directory naming schemes, perhaps changing it to an underscore will solve this problem?

Running cmake 2.8.2 under Debian.

TagsNo tags attached.
Attached Files? file icon FindBoost.cmake [^] (50,753 bytes) 2010-09-08 01:54
? file icon FindBoost.cmake.old [^] (42,207 bytes) 2010-09-08 02:49
? file icon FindBoost.cmake.5 [^] (52,357 bytes) 2010-09-08 22:33
? file icon FindBoost.cmake.7 [^] (54,757 bytes) 2010-09-09 08:07

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(0022050)
Philip Lowman (developer)
2010-09-01 00:34

 Can you provide the path to the 1.42 .tar.gz file you downloaded so I can look into how it was built?

I don't recall any reports from anyone having problems with FindBoost.cmake detecting 1.42-1.44 to my knowledge (excepting Boost_ADDITIONAL_VERSIONS).
(0022053)
Raymond Wan (reporter)
2010-09-01 05:23

 Sorry that I wasn't clear. I'm using Debian 6.0 (testing), but I didn't use the Debian package -- I prefer to download from source as it is more up-to-date.

So, it is the files from http://www.boost.org/users/download/ [^] . I have 1.42 installed and when I filed the bug report, I thought I should look at 1.44 (the current version) as well. That is why I skipped 1.43 in my report.

And yes, the FindBoost.cmake that I am using is valid up to 1.41. I had to use Boost_ADDITIONAL_VERSIONS to add 1.42. I tried to find a version number of FindBoost.cmake, but couldn't find it -- so I reported my cmake version instead in the hopes that it can give the FindBoost.cmake version unambigiously.

Oh, I untarred it and also compiled it as I need more than just the headers. But I think that is not relevant to the problem? Thanks!
(0022127)
Philip Lowman (developer)
2010-09-08 01:54

 See if this new FindBoost fixes your issue (set the new Boost_NO_SYSTEM_PATHS variable in addition to BOOST_ROOT)

# FindBoost.cmake in current directory
set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR})
set(BOOST_ROOT /home/lowman/myboost)
set(Boost_NO_SYSTEM_PATHS true)
set(Boost_ADDITIONAL_VERSIONS 1.44 1.44.0)
find_package(Boost REQUIRED regex)

I don't think it matters the directory name where you install Boost with bjam.
(0022129)
Raymond Wan (reporter)
2010-09-08 02:59

 Thanks for looking into the problem!

Unfortunately, the file that you sent did not work. This is the error that I got:

=====
-- [ /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:414 ] Boost not in cache
-- _boost_TEST_VERSIONS = 1.44.0;1.44;1.43.0;1.43;1.42.0;1.42;1.41.0;1.41;1.40.0;1.40;1.39.0;1.39;1.38.0;1.38;1.37.0;1.37;1.36.1;1.36.0;1.36;1.35.1;1.35.0;1.35;1.34.1;1.34.0;1.34;1.33.1;1.33.0;1.33
-- Boost_USE_MULTITHREADED = ON
-- Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS = ON
-- Boost_USE_STATIC_RUNTIME =
-- Boost_ADDITIONAL_VERSIONS =
-- Boost_NO_SYSTEM_PATHS = true
-- [ /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:480 ] Declared as CMake or Environmental Variables:
-- [ /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:482 ] BOOST_ROOT = /usr/local
-- [ /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:484 ] BOOST_INCLUDEDIR =
-- [ /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:486 ] BOOST_LIBRARYDIR =
-- [ /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:488 ] _boost_TEST_VERSIONS = 1.44.0;1.44;1.43.0;1.43;1.42.0;1.42;1.41.0;1.41;1.40.0;1.40;1.39.0;1.39;1.38.0;1.38;1.37.0;1.37;1.36.1;1.36.0;1.36;1.35.1;1.35.0;1.35;1.34.1;1.34.0;1.34;1.33.1;1.33.0;1.33
-- [ /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:542 ] Include debugging info:
-- [ /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:544 ] _boost_INCLUDE_SEARCH_DIRS = /usr/local/include;/usr/local
-- [ /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:546 ] _boost_PATH_SUFFIXES = boost-1_44_0;boost-1_44;boost-1_43_0;boost-1_43;boost-1_42_0;boost-1_42;boost-1_41_0;boost-1_41;boost-1_40_0;boost-1_40;boost-1_39_0;boost-1_39;boost-1_38_0;boost-1_38;boost-1_37_0;boost-1_37;boost-1_36_1;boost-1_36_0;boost-1_36;boost-1_35_1;boost-1_35_0;boost-1_35;boost-1_34_1;boost-1_34_0;boost-1_34;boost-1_33_1;boost-1_33_0;boost-1_33
-- [ /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:681 ] guessed _boost_COMPILER = -gcc
-- [ /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:691 ] _boost_MULTITHREADED = -mt
-- [ /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:734 ] _boost_RELEASE_ABI_TAG = -
-- [ /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:736 ] _boost_DEBUG_ABI_TAG = -d
-- [ /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:793 ] _boost_LIBRARIES_SEARCH_DIRS = /usr/local/lib;/usr/local/stage/lib
CMake Warning (dev) at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:814 (if):
  given arguments:

    "STREQUAL" "-"

  Unknown arguments specified
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  CMakeLists.txt:54 (FIND_PACKAGE)
This warning is for project developers. Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:1079 (message):
  Unable to find the requested Boost libraries.

  Unable to find the Boost header files. Please set BOOST_ROOT to the root
  directory containing Boost or BOOST_INCLUDEDIR to the directory containing
  Boost's headers.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  CMakeLists.txt:54 (FIND_PACKAGE)


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
=====

Since I use different Boost components and installed your file into the system directory, my CMakeLists.txt is a little different:

set (BOOST_ROOT /usr/local)
set (Boost_NO_SYSTEM_PATHS true)
set (Boost_LIBRARYDIR /usr/local)
SET (Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS ON)
SET (Boost_USE_MULTITHREADED ON)
FIND_PACKAGE (Boost REQUIRED COMPONENTS mpi program_options)

I took a look at FindBoost.cmake and though I can't understand the syntax, I took a guess and changed line 533 from:

list(APPEND _boost_PATH_SUFFIXES "boost-${_boost_BOOSTIFIED_VERSION}")

to

list(APPEND _boost_PATH_SUFFIXES "boost_${_boost_BOOSTIFIED_VERSION}")

This worked "better" [*], but makes no sense to me. Does this mean Boost has changed their default directory naming scheme so that the hyphen is not used? Or even worse -- is Boost inconsistent between versions??

I said "better" because I got an error which my older version did not give me (either through symlinking as I originally reported, or by changing the hyphen). This is what I get with your newer version:

=====
-- [ /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:793 ] _boost_LIBRARIES_SEARCH_DIRS = /usr/local/lib;/usr/local/stage/lib
CMake Warning (dev) at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:814 (if):
  given arguments:

    "STREQUAL" "-"

  Unknown arguments specified
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  CMakeLists.txt:55 (FIND_PACKAGE)
This warning is for project developers. Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

-- [ /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:999 ] Boost_FOUND = FALSE
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:1079 (message):
  Unable to find the requested Boost libraries.

  Boost version: 1.42.0

  Boost include path: /usr/local/boost_1_42_0

  The following Boost libraries could not be found:

          boost_mpi
          boost_program_options

  No Boost libraries were found. You may need to set Boost_LIBRARYDIR to the
  directory containing Boost libraries or BOOST_ROOT to the location of
  Boost.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  CMakeLists.txt:55 (FIND_PACKAGE)


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
=====

But with the older version, it worked:

-- [ /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:696 ] _boost_LIBRARIES_SEARCH_DIRS = /usr/local/lib;/usr/local/stage/lib;/usr/local/boost_1_42_0/lib;/usr/local/boost_1_42_0/../lib;C:/boost/lib;C:/boost;/boost/boost_1_42_0/lib;/boost/boost_1_42/lib;/boost/lib;/boost;/sw/local/lib
-- [ /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:830 ] Boost_FOUND = TRUE
-- Boost version: 1.42.0
-- Found the following Boost libraries:
-- mpi
-- program_options
-- Configuring done


I realize that you must have the old version in a repository somewhere, but I've uploaded it in case you want to do a quick comparison.

Thank you -- and let me know if I'm just doing something wrong...that's always possible...

Attached file: FindBoost.cmake.old
(0022132)
Philip Lowman (developer)
2010-09-08 09:07

 I will look into the STREQUAL issue with the new version tonight after work.

I did an install with bjam last night of Boost 1.44 and I don't see any "boost_x_y_z" or "boost-x_y_z" in the install prefix. Maybe they disabled this?
(0022135)
Raymond Wan (reporter)
2010-09-08 10:39

 Sorry, for not being clearer, but I think it is unrelated to bjam [NB: I'm only a Boost user, so I don't know how things are organized...]. This is because boost can be used without compiling or running bjam (for the "header only" libraries) [*].

This is related to how the boost developers decided to archive boost. For example,

-----
debian:/tmp/test# ls -al
total 46308
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 8 23:30 .
drwxrwxrwt 9 root root 12288 Sep 8 23:30 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47345940 Sep 8 23:24 boost_1_44_0.tar.gz
debian:/tmp/test# md5sum boost_1_44_0.tar.gz
085fce4ff2089375105d72475d730e15 boost_1_44_0.tar.gz
debian:/tmp/test# tar -zxvf boost_1_44_0.tar.gz 1>out.txt 2>&1
debian:/tmp/test# ls
boost_1_44_0 boost_1_44_0.tar.gz out.txt
debian:/tmp/test# head -n 5 out.txt
boost_1_44_0/
boost_1_44_0/boost/
boost_1_44_0/boost/accumulators/
boost_1_44_0/boost/accumulators/accumulators.hpp
boost_1_44_0/boost/accumulators/accumulators_fwd.hpp
-----

Given this, I'm somewhat surprised that no one else has said anything about this problem. Either the switch from "-" to "_" was recent, or I've done something unconventional...I have no idea what it may be since I've just followed the instructions in [*] (below).

I hope this helps and thanks so much for looking into it!

[*] http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_44_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html#the-boost-distribution [^]
(0022149)
Philip Lowman (developer)
2010-09-08 22:32

 I understand what you mean now. Sorry for the confusion and thanks for reporting this.

Could you test the new version I've attached? I also fixed it so it finds libraries in lib/stage because it looks like we supported this at one point or another.

set(BOOST_ROOT /home/lowman/src)
set(Boost_DEBUG ON)
set(Boost_NO_SYSTEM_PATHS TRUE)
set(Boost_USE_MULTITHREADED ON)
set(Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS ON)
set(Boost_USE_STATIC_RUNTIME OFF)
set(Boost_ADDITIONAL_VERSIONS 1.44 1.44.0)
find_package(Boost)
# or with libraries...
#find_package(Boost REQUIRED system)
(0022158)
Raymond Wan (reporter)
2010-09-09 01:09

 Thanks! Yes, it all works -- both finding /usr/local/boost_1_44_0/ and finding the compiled Boost systems are ok.

There is still that STREQUAL warning, but that didn't prevent it from successful compilation.

Thanks a lot for fixing it and also for maintaining this module. From using several version of Boost, I know there are a lot of cases to worry about. This doesn't look like an easy module to maintain... Thank you!!
(0022159)
Raymond Wan (reporter)
2010-09-09 01:13

 Oh, and just in case you can't generate the same warning as me, I've copied some of the output below. It's now on line 835:

...
-- [ /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:751 ] _boost_RELEASE_ABI_TAG = -
-- [ /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:753 ] _boost_DEBUG_ABI_TAG = -d
-- [ /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:814 ] _boost_LIBRARY_SEARCH_DIRS = /usr/local/boost_1_42_0/lib;/usr/local/boost_1_42_0/../lib;/usr/local/boost_1_42_0/stage/lib;/usr/local/lib;/usr/local/stage/lib
-- [ /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:869 ] Searching for MPI_LIBRARY_RELEASE: boost_mpi-gcc44-mt-1_42;boost_mpi-mt-1_42;boost_mpi-mt;boost_mpi
-- [ /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:891 ] Searching for MPI_LIBRARY_DEBUG: boost_mpi-gcc44-mt-d-1_42;boost_mpi-mt-d-1_42;boost_mpi-mt;boost_mpi
CMake Warning (dev) at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:835 (if):
  given arguments:

    "STREQUAL" "-"

  Unknown arguments specified
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  CMakeLists.txt:54 (FIND_PACKAGE)
This warning is for project developers. Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

-- [ /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:869 ] Searching for PROGRAM_OPTIONS_LIBRARY_RELEASE: boost_program_options-gcc44-mt-1_42;boost_program_options-mt-1_42;boost_program_options-mt;boost_program_options
...
(0022160)
Philip Lowman (developer)
2010-09-09 08:12

 Fixed that warning last night as well but I had forgotten which ticket it affected (I worked on like 8 FindBoost tickets last night).

The fix to eliminate the warning is in the version I just attached (along with fixes to two other issues) (FindBoost.cmake.7). I was clearing _boost_RELEASE_ABI_TAG in a loop and the second pass (if you used more than one Boost component) would do a STREQUAL on it but by then it would no longer expand to a string.

Thanks for the continued testing!
(0022178)
Raymond Wan (reporter)
2010-09-10 03:39

 No warnings and no errors -- all ok! :-)

Thanks a lot!
(0022201)
Philip Lowman (developer)
2010-09-12 22:29

 Fix will be in CMake 2.8.3 RC1

 Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
2010-08-31 02:02 Raymond Wan New Issue
2010-09-01 00:29 Philip Lowman Status new => assigned
2010-09-01 00:29 Philip Lowman Assigned To => Philip Lowman
2010-09-01 00:34 Philip Lowman Note Added: 0022050
2010-09-01 05:23 Raymond Wan Note Added: 0022053
2010-09-08 01:54 Philip Lowman Note Added: 0022127
2010-09-08 01:54 Philip Lowman File Added: FindBoost.cmake
2010-09-08 02:49 Raymond Wan File Added: FindBoost.cmake.old
2010-09-08 02:59 Raymond Wan Note Added: 0022129
2010-09-08 09:07 Philip Lowman Note Added: 0022132
2010-09-08 10:39 Raymond Wan Note Added: 0022135
2010-09-08 22:32 Philip Lowman Note Added: 0022149
2010-09-08 22:33 Philip Lowman File Added: FindBoost.cmake.5
2010-09-09 01:09 Raymond Wan Note Added: 0022158
2010-09-09 01:13 Raymond Wan Note Added: 0022159
2010-09-09 08:07 Philip Lowman File Added: FindBoost.cmake.7
2010-09-09 08:12 Philip Lowman Note Added: 0022160
2010-09-10 03:39 Raymond Wan Note Added: 0022178
2010-09-10 08:39 Philip Lowman ETA none => < 1 day
2010-09-10 08:39 Philip Lowman Target Version => CMake 2.8.3
2010-09-12 22:29 Philip Lowman Note Added: 0022201
2010-09-12 22:29 Philip Lowman Status assigned => resolved
2010-09-12 22:29 Philip Lowman Fixed in Version => CMake 2.8.3
2010-09-12 22:29 Philip Lowman Resolution open => fixed
2010-11-09 22:56 Philip Lowman Status resolved => closed

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