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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:01:31PM +0100, Åsmund Ødegård wrote:
> 
> 
> 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

Good point! :-)

Just a small comment. If I do enableSlepc=no, then I get

  Unable to find optional package: slepc

Maybe it should be

  Not checking for optional package: slepc

or just silence?

-- 
Anders