A Better Error Message?

[Allen Winter]

On Tuesday 18 April 2006 04:37, David Faure wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 10:41:22PM -0400, Allen Winter wrote:
> > Howdy CMakers,
> > 
> > I completely removed my KDE4 install dir, and then mistakenly tried to build kdepim
> > before kdelibs4_snapshot.  So, I got the following from CMake:
> > 
> > Re-run cmake no build system arguments
> > -- Check for working C compiler: gcc
> > -- Check for working C compiler: gcc -- works
> > -- Check size of void*
> > -- Check size of void* - done
> > -- Check for working CXX compiler: c++
> > -- Check for working CXX compiler: c++ -- works
> > ERROR: cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake not found in /misc/home/winterz/.kde4/share/apps/;/usr/share/apps/
> > -- Configuring done
> > 
> > 
> > I was wondering if we could do better than the error message above.
> 
> Hey that was an improvement already; initially it said "KDE4 not found" or something like that :)
> 
> > Perhaps something like:  
> > "ERROR: cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake not found in /misc/home/winterz/.kde4/share/apps/;/usr/share/apps/
> > Did you forget to install kdelibs first?"
> > 
> > Is this possible?
> 
> Well I didn't add a line like "Did you forget to install kdelibs first?", because
> it could also be that the user installed kdelibs, but didn't adjust the PATH,
> so another kde-config is found, which points to another directory.
> That's why I thought it would be clear enough to simply point out the paths
> that we're looking into. If cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake isn't in this
> list of paths, then obviously
> - kdelibs hasn't been installed at all
> or
> - kdelibs hasn't been installed there.
>    (which means either that PATH is wrong, or that kdelibs was installed to the wrong place)
> 
> Hmm, ok, the piece of information that might be missing to people is that
> FindKDE4Internal is actually installed by kdelibs. I'm fine with adding that,
> but since "did you forget to install" isn't the only possible reason for the problem,
> I'm not sure how.
> 

Perhaps something like:  
 ERROR: cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake not found in /misc/home/winterz/.kde4/share/apps/;/usr/share/apps/
 This probably means that CMake is unable to locate a valid kdelibs installation.



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