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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...>]

Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> > $ mkdir svn
> >
> > $ cd svn
> >
> > $ svn -r 52863 co https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk/boost
>
> svn co https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/tags/release/Boost_1_40_0/boost/
>
>
> is another way to get the tree, this is a stable released version, and 
> the newest released version.
>
> I have not tried this, but I encourage you to, and if it works, we might 
> simply write a script for folks to use it.
>
>
> Dick

Parting thoughts. It may be reasonable to offer a 2 part solution to 
this problem once and for all:


(1) create a CMake target which is marked with

EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL

that serves to install these boost headers using the svn on tags line 
above, and does so into <kicad>/include/boost

The EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL flag means that this installation is optional, 
folks using package management will not want to do this install, so the 
target will not get triggered unless you invoke it.


(2) we copy the FindBoost.cmake from a recent CMake, and put it into our 
CMakeModules directory, and enhance it to look in <kicad>/include/boost 
ALSO, but not exclusively.


This is the best I can offer, I am out of time on it.


Dick