FindKdepimLibs should require Boost

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Monday 04 August 2008, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hope the subject doesn't stir up a flame-war. I'm not questioning the
> dependency. My question is: Shouldn't FindKdepimLibs.cmake be requiring
> Boost? There's currently breakage in the 4.1 branch (kdeplasma-addons)
> because one part of the comic dataengine in there uses libsyndication
> from kdepimlibs. However libsyndication contains boost-stuff in its
> public headers, which means one has to also require boost to build the
> comic dataengine completely.
> So shouldn't FindKdepimLibs.cmake have a find_package call for Boost,

If that's the case, I'd say a clear "yes".
(I didn't check)

> probably requiring it. 

It must only be "REQUIRED", if KdepimLibs has been called with "REQUIRED" 
itself. Otherwise it must fail non-FATAL.

> After all its impossible to use all of kdepimlibs
> without boost. Or we need more logic in FindKdepimLibs.cmake setting
> individual _FOUND variables for the individual libs and setting this to
> no if boost is not found but the specific library contains boost stuff
> in its public headers (like libsyndication).

This also wouldn't hurt. But as you say the part for libsyndication will still 
need the check for boost.

Alex