On Monday 15 May 2006 23:42, Allen Winter wrote: > On Monday 15 May 2006 17:27, David Faure wrote: > > On Monday 15 May 2006 22:55, Laurent Montel wrote: > > > SVN commit 541270 by mlaurent: > > > > > > Add message to signal why kresource will not compile > > > (I think that it will better to have a "configure.in.bot" into cmake) > > > > In other terms, this is a request for a way to collect warnings and show > > them at the end of the execution. Could be done with kde-specific macros > > or could be done in cmake. Any CMakeLists.txt in any subdir could "add a > > message to the list", and then some code that runs at the end of it all > > (I guess that would be the bottom of the toplevel CMakeLists.txt) would > > issue those messages. > > > > Is there interest for such a feature in cmake or should we implement it > > with our own macros? > > However we do it... let's please take this opportunity to come up with a > standard message format. > > I don't like Warning in this situation. I like better a wording that > states you are missing features since you don' t have something installed. > And it would be nice to always have a URL pointing you to where the > optional software can be obtained. > > Now, I haven't given this a lot of thought (Adriaan maybe has), but > something like the following might be nice: > > > "Notice: Your build will be missing the following features because some > optional software packages could not be located. Please install the > optional software as indicated below and re-run 'cmake' if you would like > to have the associated feature enabled: > > FEATURE: gives extra coolness to kneato > PACKAGE: cool software > URL: http://cool_software.org > > FEATURE: weaponize your computer > PACKAGE: libarmament > URL: http://www.armament.org/download > " > > So maybe we have a cmake macro > missing_feature_message("description","package name","url") > > or something like this... > -Allen
I agree with you. A standard message format is a very good idea. For me it will better that it will integrate into cmake and not just a kde cmake macro. _______________________________________________ Kde-buildsystem mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-buildsystem
