FindBoost.cmake (Was: kdesupport-for-4.2 cmake error)

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Monday 19 January 2009, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 18.01.09 23:33:21, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
...
> > > The problem with that is when a new version is out.
> >
> > Not really, if a project uses boost, one of its dev should _check_ that
> > it still works with the newer version (As I said in the other mail,
> > kdevplatform for example doesn't build with 1.37). And if he verified
> > that, he can simply commit the change.
> >
> > IMHO you can't assume that your boost-using project will work just fine
> > with a newer version.

Are they that bad with keeping compatibility ?

> PS: Re-Reading my post I guess it didn't come across that, I don't object
> adding some globbing to find version.hpp. I was just trying to point out
> the possible problems that come with that approach.

Yes, I think some globbing sounds like a good idea.
You could just do it in /usr/include and /usr/local/include, or go for 
everything:
glob in each of CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH with include/ appended (empty by default)
glob in each of CMAKE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_PATH with include/ appended
glob in each of CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH (usually empty)
glob in each of CMAKE_SYSTEM_INCLUDE_PATH

Alex