[CMake] FindBoost: FIND_PACKAGE ( Boost COMPONENTS filesystem )

[Mathieu Malaterre]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Philip Lowman <philip at yhbt.com> wrote:
> Personally, I think FindBoost is complex enough without having to  also keep
> track of boost's internal dependencies as well.  Maybe things would be
> better if the boost people published this info with every release.

I understand your point. Thanks for maintaining this module.

> If you'd like to check in support for the feature and volunteer to maintain
> it, however, that's fine by me.  It would make so much more sense to do
> within Boost itself,  though.

Yup, using cmake this would be trivial:

ADD_LIBRARY(filesystem ${filesystem_SRCS})
SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(filesystem LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES "system")

If only those people could ditch, this bjam based build system and
start using the cmake one...

-- 
Mathieu