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Combining this > unless you are willing to contribute and fix it and this > we have a lot of legacy code that must work together with this library means...

I confirm. Manjaro fails to install with hundreds "failed retrieving file" errors. One-star review.

> Is there an actual issue caused by meson not using the .cmake files? Of course. Meson has zero idea how to find boost without using the installed `.cmake` files....

> I have tested it and can confirm that it does not work correctly. I can give you a test case in a bit. Alright. Maybe it has failing test...

Another way could be is to work with the Boost team to provide something specific for Meson.

>However, I can't help you / fix the bug if you don't provide more information to reproduce the problem. All information is in my initial post. When you compile boost,...

It installs the libraries and `.cmake` files to PREFIX/lib. That's what I said in my initial post. `.cmake` files have the right location of the header files, so you don't...

Ah... `.cmake` files of course also have the right names of the libraries, eliminating completely the naming mess. So I would say it will be less maintenance to read all...

Great, I am glad a misunderstanding was resolved. The purpose of creating this issue wasn't to help me to find a workaround. That I can do myself. I was just...

Btw, I agree that creating a full CMake back-end is a non-starter. It will be a nightmare, because of different version, bugs in CMake, various policies, etc.