On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Kristian Ølgaard <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27 September 2011 09:25, Johannes Ring <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Garth N. Wells <[email protected]> wrote: >>> This change will break the buildbots until Boost is updated on the >>> buildbots. >> >> Yes, I'm working on this now (two fixed, two to go). > > A simple question related to this, to help understanding the > CMakeLists.txt file better. > > I installed libboost-mpi-dev and everything worked fine. This seems a > bit strange to me since I'm running boost version 1.42.0, but looking > in the CMakeLists.txt file I see the lines: > > set(Boost_ADDITIONAL_VERSIONS 1.43 1.43.0 1.44 1.44.0 1.45 1.45.0 1.46 > 1.46.0 1.46.1) > > if (DOLFIN_ENABLE_MPI AND MPI_FOUND) > find_package(Boost 1.36 COMPONENTS filesystem program_options system > thread iostreams mpi REQUIRED) > else() > find_package(Boost 1.36 COMPONENTS filesystem program_options system > thread iostreams REQUIRED) > endif() > find_package(Boost 1.36 COMPONENTS filesystem program_options system > thread iostreams REQUIRED) > > If 1.42 or 1.42.0 was in the list of ADDITIONAL_VERSIONS, or if '1.36' > was '1.42', I could understand it. But if '1.36' works as a minimum > requirement, then why bothering setting additional versions?
The 1.36 is the minimum required version for DOLFIN, while the Boost_ADDITIONAL_VERSIONS variable is used to help CMake find newer versions of Boost that wasn't available when CMake 2.8.0 was released (see FindBoost.cmake). Johannes _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dolfin Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dolfin More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
