[vtkusers] CMake Boost with VTK?

[Andrew Maclean]

It seems to be very low on their radar. They have bjam working well
for both windows and linux so there will be little incentive to change
to CMake.
Given their build system works so well I think it would add more
complexity to users if we pointed them to a cmake version. By the way
as Marcus mentioned,  boost has released version 1.43 so this is
already three releases ahead of the last ("official") cmake release.
With respect to David Doria's comment about the change to
src/VTK/CMakeLists.txt re removing the cmake check for the boost
version. Are there any users using such an old version of boost? Why
is this message triggered at all in David's case?

Regards
   Andrew


On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Michael Jackson
<mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
> The boost-cmake list is the very definition of "low traffic". Not much going
> on there.
> --
> Mike Jackson.
>
> On May 27, 2010, at 2:59 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:
>
>> I tried to subscribe to the list, but have not received a single email
>> (will try again). I am using the CMake build system with VTK in Titan. For
>> VTK we don't even need to compile do we? We just use the header only libs as
>> far as I could tell.
>>
>> That said, the Titan dashboard is building Boost using CMake, and then
>> VTK, and then some other stuff. This is tested daily. I have also tested the
>> 1.43 release with CMake build system, and that works fine here, but we are
>> using 1.41 in Titan.
>>
>> Marcus
>>
>> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Michael Jackson
>> <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
>> So basically there is the Boost-Cmake located at www.gitorious.com/boost
>>
>> Development stopped at Boost 1.41.0 due to someone stepping forward to do
>> all the merges/testing with the newer releases of boost. I think someone did
>> a clone and applied some of the boost 1.42 patches to their clone but
>> nothing "official" from boost.org. The git repo is there if someone wants to
>> step forward and coordinate a release.
>> ___________________________________________________________
>> Mike Jackson                      www.bluequartz.net
>> Principal Software Engineer       mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
>> BlueQuartz Software               Dayton, Ohio
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 27, 2010, at 11:52 AM, David Doria wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Andrew Maclean
>> <andrew.amaclean at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Last time I looked at the CMake version of boost it looked to be
>> preliminary. I note that there is no mention of the CMake version in
>> the latest release, 1.42. I have reverted to using the usual bjam
>> version.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> So what is the consensus? Are we recommending that people do not use
>> this? As you mentioned, in the "official" release they are still not
>> using cmake, but the cmake version seems to work fine with VTK. That
>> change to the CMakeLists.txt I proposed doesn't really hurt anything,
>> right? But it allows people to use this version if they choose.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> David
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