I'm currently trying to build percolator for bioconda (bioconda/bioconda-recipes#16532).

During building converters the following error occurs

-- Checking for module 'tokyocabinet'
--   Found tokyocabinet, version 1.4.48
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:133 (message):
   The package Tokyo Cabinet has not been found

Building is done like this:
https://github.com/bioconda/bioconda-recipes/blob/e9ed6500c0d75c139a24ae1607fbed0406fb40d4/recipes/percolator/build.sh#L10

Is there a special variable that I need to set?

Note that if I set -DSERIALIZE="Boost" building works. So I was wondering if I can use just this.

You also document boost as default here:

But use tokyocabinet for building packages