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Why there's no need to use include_directories() in 01-basic\H-third-party-library #75

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In 01-basic\H-third-party-library, the example project uses find_package(Boost 1.46.1 REQUIRED COMPONENTS filesystem system) to find the third-party-library Boost, but without using include_directories(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS}), how can the target find where the "XXX.h" files are?
And in the file README.adoc, in Checking if the package is found part, the example uses include_directories(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS})

if(Boost_FOUND)
    message ("boost found")
    include_directories(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS})
else()
    message (FATAL_ERROR "Cannot find Boost")
endif()

In fact, without writing include_directories(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS}), the example project can compile and run without any problems, but it really confuse me whether I need to use include_directories(${XXX_INCLUDE_DIRS}) after using find_package(XXX) and why or why not.

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