On 21/07/2017 22:22, Andrey Semashev wrote:
On 07/21/17 22:30, Alain Miniussi wrote:
On 21/07/2017 19:24, Andrey Semashev via Boost wrote:
Actually, as a user I do care and not in favor of CMake because there is always a possibility that Boost requires a newer CMake version that is not available on my platform.
We could embed the required CMake distribution in boost, compile it, and use it to build boost ?
There's the build dependencies of cmake on Ubuntu:
libarchive-dev (>= 2.8.0), libbz2-dev, libcurl4-openssl-dev | libcurl-ssl-dev, libexpat1-dev, libjsoncpp-dev, liblzma-dev, libncurses5-dev, libuv1-dev, procps [!hurd-any], python-sphinx, qtbase5-dev , zlib1g-dev
(I've omitted the ones obviously required by Debian build scripts.)
Are you going to include those as well?
I don't remember having to install anything when building cmake from source in years (including 3.9.0 right now), either on my machines or the ones I had no admin right. So I don't expect that to be an issue.