Boost vs cmake 2.8.8 vs kdepimlibs master

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Saturday 15 December 2012, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El Dissabte, 15 de desembre de 2012, a les 15:41:37, Alexander Neundorf va
> 
> escriure:
> > On Saturday 15 December 2012, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > There seems to be various reports of kdepimlibs master not working with
> > > cmake 2.8.8
> > > 
> > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.buildsystem/7589
> > > http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/release-team/2012-December/006566.html
> > > 
> > > But cmake 2.8.8 is what we are requiring at the global kdelibs level.
> > > 
> > > Should we:
> > >  a) Require cmake 2.8.9 at the kdelibs level
> > >  b) Require cmake 2.8.9 at the kdepimlibs level
> > >  c) Don't change requirement, bring back FindBoost.cmake to kdelibs and
> > > 
> > > keep working with 2.8.8
> > > 
> > > I don't have a strong feeling but i guess that "b" would actually imply
> > > "a"
> > > on 99.99% case of the packagers, so probaly just go with "a"?
> > > 
> > > Comments?
> > 
> > There would be also option
> > d) don't mark the package as REQUIRED in the summary, but simply do
> > find_package(Boost REQUIRED)
> > This should make it work too.
> 
> Interesting, if that works and saves us from increasing the dependency,
> might be worth a shot, can you provide a patch so people with cmake 2.8.8
> can give it a try?

Attached, can somebody give it a try ?

Alex
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