You could say that about any of our FindBlah.cmake files -- they need to be 
kept up to date if the dependencies change in some way that causes the old 
find's to no longer work. But sure, I see your point.

Is it worth a check in externalpackages.cmake to see if cmake < 1.14 && boost 
>= 1.70 and if so, print a warning that says that this combo may not work and 
if their build is failing to find boost, they should try upgrading cmake?

Aside: I build just fine on my Mac laptop with Boost 1.70 installed by homebrew.

Jim, do you know which version of cmake you are using?


> On Jul 12, 2019, at 2:58 PM, Thiago Ize <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> What happens when the oiio FindBoost.cmake you include becomes too old? It's 
> not too hard to install newer cmake builds...
> 
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2019, 3:28 PM Larry Gritz <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Do you think, then, that we should embed a copy of FindBoost.cmake into OIIO, 
> so that people with older cmake and newer boost don't have to install a whole 
> new cmake? Does it rely on any new cmake features (I mean, how old a cmake 
> will run cmake 1.14's FindBoost.cmake)?
> 
> 
>> On Jul 12, 2019, at 11:37 AM, Nathan R <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> It sounds like the FindBoost.cmake module distributed with CMake itself had 
>> to be updated in order to support Boost 1.70+, so it may just be a matter of 
>> updating CMake (or grabbing a fresh copy of FindBoost.cmake from the repo).
>> 
>> Possibly relevant:
>> 
>> https://cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2019-April/069324.html 
>> <https://cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2019-April/069324.html>
>> https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/issues/18865 
>> <https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/issues/18865>
>> https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/commit/266808c4130a0b40aed236381707462a9368a1eb#diff-555801259d7df67368f7deab1f9deacd
>>  
>> <https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/commit/266808c4130a0b40aed236381707462a9368a1eb#diff-555801259d7df67368f7deab1f9deacd>
>> 
>> -Nathan
>> 
>> On 7/12/2019 10:59 AM, Jim Hourihan wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Larry, here's the output from a couple of different failures and one
>>> successful configure. It doesn't seem to matter if I use the release or
>>> master branch. I've omitted all the non-boost output since those are same
>>> regardless.
>>> 
>>> It seems to me find_package() should be picking up the Boost_* variables
>>> but isn't. Those are definitely not defined in boost's cmake files for
>>> 1.70.0. I've made sure there are no other copies of boost anywhere on my
>>> machine (mac 10.14.5) including brew and ports versions.
>>> 
>>> I'm thinking I should try boost 1.53 and compare its .cmake files against
>>> 1.70. 
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the help.
>>> 
>>>   -Jim
>>> 
>>>> On Jul 11, 2019, at 10:42 PM, Larry Gritz <[email protected] 
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I use Boost 1.70 on my Mac (via Homebrew, so it's in /usr/local), and as a 
>>>> matter of fact I just tested building against Boost 1.70 on Linux at work 
>>>> this week. So I know it works.
>>>> 
>>>> Under ordinary circumstances, you shouldn't have to set those things 
>>>> individually that you mention below.
>>>> 
>>>> It *ought* to be enough to -DBOOST_ROOT=$PREFIX
>>>> 
>>>> If things are laid out strangely underneath the prefix, though, you may 
>>>> want to use -DBOOST_INCLUDEDIR=/custom/include/dir 
>>>> -DBOOST_LIBRARYDIR=/custom/lib/dir
>>>> 
>>>> If that doesn't work, can you show us the resulting CMakeCache.txt and 
>>>> exactly what errors it prints?
>>>> 
>>>> Which version of OIIO are you building? Do you still have the problem with 
>>>> master?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Jul 11, 2019, at 7:03 PM, Jim Hourihan <[email protected] 
>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi All, I’m having some weird interaction between OIIO and boost’s cmake 
>>>>> package files. I have a prefix area (let’s call it  /prefix/area) which I 
>>>>> install all of OIIO’s dependencies into including boost 1.70.0.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Boost creates files and dirs in /prefix/area/lib/cmake. When I point OIIO 
>>>>> at the prefix area for building and let it find boost  by itself it does, 
>>>>> but then fails in OIIO’s externalpackages.cmake line 121. That line is 
>>>>> attempting to dereference the variable Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS which is set to 
>>>>> nothing. The weird thing is that find_packages() does successfully say it 
>>>>> found boost. I assume something has changed in 1.70.0 with how they’re 
>>>>> writing the cmake files but my cmake-fu is very poor.
>>>>> 
>>>>> To get around it I’m passing the Boost_* variables directly to cmake 
>>>>> since externalpackages.cmake mercifully allows that as an option.
>>>>> 
>>>>> My questions are:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Any issues with using 1.70.0 or does everybody still use 1.53?
>>>>> 
>>>>> What are the expected values of the Boost_* variables? I’m passing:
>>>>> 
>>>>>              -DBoost_VERSION=1.70.0
>>>>>              
>>>>> -DBoost_LIBRARIES='boost_filesystem;boost_system;boost_thread’
>>>>>              -DBoost_INCLUDE_DIRS=$PREFIX/include
>>>>>              -DBoost_LIBRARY_DIRS=$PREFIX/lib
>>>>> 
>>>>> What should BOOST_ROOT be set to? Seems like OIIO doesn’t care if it’s 
>>>>> set.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>> 
>>>>>    -Jim
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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