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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 21 August 2012 12:35, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>

That bit (the summary) is good, it's the preceding bits as CMake runs
through the packages that looks bad. I can't reproduce it at the
moment because the machine in question is down for maintained.

Garth

> --
> Anders