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[Remi <>]

Using CMake to find Boost is a joke. The file FindBoost.cmake is a
joke. The result would be the same if you simply included what needed
from CGAL into your project and compile it the way you want. Your
compiler would point it out to you that it cannot find Boost headers
also but you wouldn't be so confused as to how to fix that. Open
source libraries shouldn't enforce a build system on the user
(especially if it gets so convulted as in this case). Nor should they
use CMake (or any other build system) to magically plow through your
PC and based on some rules (contained in 500K lines of CMake scripts)
GENERATE ACTUAL SOURCE CODE. It just feels so wrong to let the build
tool generate source code. Don't even get me started on that.
BTW GGAL is no exception here. I think this is a widespread trend to
make the build super complicated for no good reason.