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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:08:25AM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> I've been building Darwin on a remote HPC system without a number of
> the optional packages. If the unavailable packages are not disabled on
> the command line, the CMake output looks rather dramatic. It gives a
> user the impression that something critical is missing when it's just
> an optional dependency. This adds to a perception that DOLFIN has a
> lot of dependencies, even though most are optional. I think we need to
> tone the messages down.

Which output do you mean? This one?

-- The following optional packages could not be found:
-- ---------------------------------------------------
-- (**) MTL4
-- (**) PASTIX

I think it looks both tidy and informative.

--
Anders