[CMake] FinXXX.cmake messages
Bill Hoffman
bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Thu Jan 11 08:11:14 EST 2007
Andreas Schneider wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we get some mails on the wengophone mailing list like.
>
>
> While building using Cmake I get following error:
>
> CMake Error: Could not find XML2
>
> Any ideas how to fix this?
>
>
> So in the FindXXX.cmake file for
>
> if (XML2_FIND_REQUIRED)
> message(FATAL_ERROR "Could not find XML2")
> endif (XML2_FIND_REQUIRED)
>
> we should rather use something like "Please install the XML2 library and
> development tools" for Lusers. Maybe this avoids some dumb questions.
>
Don't use the required flag for the find model, but after you find it,
then print your own fatal error message that says what ever you want.
-Bill
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