On 21 August 2012 12:35, Anders Logg <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dolfin Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dolfin More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

