[CMake] FindBoost.cmake oddities

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> On 11.12.08 11:38:38, Mike Jackson wrote:
>> Up a bit further I see the culprit:
>>
>>   IF ( WIN32 AND Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS )
>>     SET (Boost_LIB_PREFIX "lib")
>>   ENDIF ( WIN32 AND Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS )
>>
>> So I guess I need some logic in my own cmake files that says if Boost
>> was NOT found, set Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS to TRUE and try again, only if
>> we are on Win32. I am sure I am missing something simple...
>
> The problem is with mixed boost installations, i.e. you have shared and
> static libs. If you have that there's no way to force cmake into finding
> the static version other than changing the suffix variable as cmake will
> always prefer shared over static libraries.
>
> I'm not sure about the lib prefix above, it might be that this is only
> really needed for mingw and not for VS.
>
> Andreas

FindBoost.cmake from CMake 2.6.2 and 2.6.3RC5 fails to bind the Boost
1.34.0 headers when building KDE on Windows, too.

I have not found the time to debug the issue but I've been able to
work around it by using the FindBoost.cmake from 2.6.0.

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