No, but I can try that. The custom prefix build looks pretty kosher to me. Let 
me mess with it some more and see if I can figure it out. Maybe I forgot to 
turn the computer on or some other stupid problem. 

   -Jim

> On Jul 12, 2019, at 3:31 PM, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Dumb question: If you're using MacPorts/Brew, did you try installing Boost 
> via whichever of those you like, and see if OIIO/CMake just picks it up 
> properly without the custom boost build?
> 
> I'm just wondering if that custom boost build has laid out the files in some 
> funky way that is confusing things?
> 
> 
>> On Jul 12, 2019, at 3:26 PM, Jim Hourihan <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> cmake version 3.14.2
>> 
>> Its installed in /opt/local so that’s from macports if I remember correctly. 
>> I’m being super slow here so I haven’t tried 1.53 yet.
>> 
>>   -Jim
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jul 12, 2019, at 3:15 PM, Larry Gritz <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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] 
>>>> <mailto:[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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