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["Åsmund Ødegård" <aasmund@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 08:36:34PM +0100, Martin Sandve Alnæs wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I agree it is a little annoying. For example, I currently don't have
> SLEPc installed, but I don't want to be reminded about it every time
> I compile something. Is there another way to handle this?
>
> Perhaps at the end of the list of "Unable to find..." we could do
> something like this:
>
> Unable to find optional package: scotch
> Unable to find optional package: gts
> For instructions on how to enable these packages, see Foo.
>
> where Foo could be README or scons/README or whatever?
>

You could just set enableScotch=no,  etc. After all, you're the one that
wanted them enabled as default, if I recall correctly :)

Åsmund