Re: [Cppcms-users] cppcms build problems

[Artyom <art...@ya...>]

Hello...

> 
> Searching for libs is very easy - if there is already
> support for it. It is
> also often done without pkg-config. Something like
> find_package(Boost 1.34 REQUIRED COMPONENTS thread
> date_time program_options
> regex filesystem)
> may be enough.

Good you mentioned it ;-) Just to make my points better.

This exactly what stucks me now.

I have two versions of boost, system installed 1.35 and
local 1.39

I give CMake Paths to library headers and libs... It seearches...
finds 1.39 but... Instead of linking with /some/path/to/libboost_foo_bar.so it links to /usr/lib/libboost_foo_bar.so

Headers and libraries of different version!!! WTF??

All I need to do with auto is 
  ./configure CXXFLAGS=-I/path/inc LIBS=-L/path/lib

But CMake is smarter... 

Ok lets try to search a library by myself and check if I can
find all I need... Find 5 libraries... but second
if(X and Y and Z and T) does not work in CMake syntax...
So lets write long-long tests...

Ok lets check where we have socket? in libc, nls, or socket
(AC_SEARCH_LIBS) there is no such thing (note it is quite
different from find library)...

Write long macros again.

Now, lets check for simple C++0x feature "auto"... Wait a second
for TRY_COMPILE I need to create a project instead of writing
3 lines. WTF???

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In other words...

CMake is almost as useable as... handly written configure script.
It is just too verbose, It is more
verbose by an order of magnitude then auto* even for simple
tasks you take for granted.


> 
> Btw. have you already read
> http://www.rrsd.com/software_development/boost/oopsla05.pdf
> 

Thanks for the link... No I still didn't

    Artyom