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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2015-05-08 13:18:50 (GMT)
committerBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2015-05-08 13:20:43 (GMT)
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ExternalProject: Improve error when SOURCE_DIR is missing (#15560)
Mention the SOURCE_DIR that we checked and found empty or missing so that the user can see the full path to what we expected to find.
Diffstat (limited to 'Modules')
-rw-r--r--Modules/ExternalProject.cmake13
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Modules/ExternalProject.cmake b/Modules/ExternalProject.cmake
index 97bebc0..7cf9d79 100644
--- a/Modules/ExternalProject.cmake
+++ b/Modules/ExternalProject.cmake
@@ -1866,7 +1866,18 @@ function(_ep_add_download_command name)
else()
_ep_is_dir_empty("${source_dir}" empty)
if(${empty})
- message(SEND_ERROR "error: no download info for '${name}' -- please specify existing/non-empty SOURCE_DIR or one of URL, CVS_REPOSITORY and CVS_MODULE, SVN_REPOSITORY, GIT_REPOSITORY, HG_REPOSITORY or DOWNLOAD_COMMAND")
+ message(SEND_ERROR
+ "No download info given for '${name}' and its source directory:\n"
+ " ${source_dir}\n"
+ "is not an existing non-empty directory. Please specify one of:\n"
+ " * SOURCE_DIR with an existing non-empty directory\n"
+ " * URL\n"
+ " * GIT_REPOSITORY\n"
+ " * HG_REPOSITORY\n"
+ " * CVS_REPOSITORY and CVS_MODULE\n"
+ " * SVN_REVISION\n"
+ " * DOWNLOAD_COMMAND"
+ )
endif()
endif()