[CMake] Re: FindBoost.cmake: please test

Andreas Pakulat apaku at gmx.de
Mon Jan 21 11:52:13 EST 2008


On 21.01.08 08:53:58, Brad King wrote:
> Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > On 20.01.08 17:11:17, Rodolfo Lima wrote:
> >> Andreas Pakulat escreveu:
> >>
> >>> Naah, _boost_XXX is internal and not exposed. I rather have a
> >>> Boost_MINIMUM_VERSION. That would also allow to use REQUIRED and a more
> >>> verbose message saying wether the version is wrong or a needed lib is
> >>> not found.
> >> Speaking of which, find_package could have a way to specify required
> >> versions, isn't? Like pkg-config does... That's a common use case.
> >> Something along the lines of:
> >> find_package(Boost MINIMUM_VERSION 1.34.1)
> > 
> > There is actually already a way to specify major.minor with find_package
> > (see man cmake). Unfortunately this is not yet handled by cmake, even
> > more sad that there are two wishlist reports for this since 2005.
> > Entries #4243 and #1645
> 
> I've just implemented the request in 1645 in CMake HEAD.  If you call

Cool :) I hope it was as easy to implement as it sounded like.

Andreas

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