On 2016-12-11 02:23-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> @Laurent:
>
> My apologies for not answering sooner but I was otherwise occupied with
> other issues currently being discussed on the PLplot devel list.
>
> The short explanation of the message you were getting is that our build
> system gets a list of libraries from the official find module.  Some of
> those are actual locations, and some are in the -L...-l... form.  So we
> transform the latter to actual location by looking for the library
> using the find_library command, and for some reason some of those
> could not be found.  The cure for this is to identify the libraries
> that were not found from comparing the old and transformed lists, then
> installing the relevant libraries or adjust environment variables
> such as PATH and/or CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH to help CMake find the
> relevant libraries.
>
> I must say, however, that the comparison of the two lists given to you
> is a far less than optimal way to find what libraries could not be
> found so I plan in the next few days to update that part of our build
> system to make this WARNING message a lot clearer.

DONE as of commit 8566ee8.  Look at that commit message to see an
example of the new format for this set of warning messages.

Alan
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University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state
implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time
Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting
software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project
(unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net);
and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net).
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