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["Martin Sandve Alnæs" <martinal@xxxxxxxxx>]

These *** messages make the scons output difficult to skim over:

Checking for scotch... no (pkg-config file not found)
 Trying to generate pkg-config file for scotch... failed
 *** Unable to generate a suitable pkg-config file for scotch.
 *** If scotch is present on your system, try setting the SCOTCH_DIR
 *** environment variable to the directory where scotch is installed.

In particular when several such messages are combined. What about
collecting them and printing the instructions for all environment
variables at the end? Much like the already implemented

Unable to find optional package: scotch
Unable to find optional package: gts

We could for example have just

Checking for scotch... no (pkg-config file not found)
 Trying to generate pkg-config file for scotch... failed
Checking for gts... no (pkg-config file not found)
 Trying to generate pkg-config file for gts... failed

where it is now, and add at the end something like:

If any of
  scotch
  gts
are present on your system, try setting one or more of the
  SCOTCH_DIR
  GTS_DIR
environment variables to the directory where the respective library is
installed.

--
Martin