Paul Fultz II

> It looks like bcm_test_link_libraries calls bcm_shadow_exists which calls add_library which I think is actually a macro that calls this _add_library thing that I can't make heads or tails of,...

> Perhaps that is a rabbit hole. It appears that EXCLUDE_LIBS isn't used outside of the root CMakeLists.txt. Yes of course, because each project can be built independently without the...

> uh, and sorry for opening all these as issues, but with a 1-commit repository with this recent commit date and older issues, I'm assuming you are just force pushing...

Yea, we probably need a way to control whether tests are added or not, I am not sure the best way to do that yet. One, I would like to...

> I'm very interested in not running tests by default. Most libraries that I've used have an explicit target like make check for this. Thats the exactly how this works....

> it actually uses https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/rocm-cmake, which is OK if you happen to have ROCm Rocm-cmake doesnt require rocm(and is tested on windows and mac which dont have rocm). Its just...

I have built the 1.67 version, but since 1.68 is around the corner I was planning to jump to that.

You want to make a separate build directory, try: ``` mkdir build cd build cmake .. make ```

> After cmake .. there is the message: Build files have been written to: /home/james/src/boost that the build files are in the parent directory. Then I am not sure why...

> I do not know if you are generating the CMakeLIsts.txt files manually for each library or whether you have a script for doing so Part of it is generated,...