[CMake] MESSAGE SEND_ERROR and FATAL_ERROR

[William A. Hoffman]

At 08:44 AM 1/25/2006, David Cole wrote:
>So then there would be no difference between SEND_ERROR and FATAL_ERROR? What's the reasoning for this change?
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>I like the fact that SEND_ERROR allows you to signal an error, but to complete the configure step to see if you hit any more errors... Then you can fix them all at once and try again. If you do as you propose, you'll have to fix things one at a time, leading to perhaps much longer initial configure times (and number of iterations) for large projects.
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>I do agree that it's confusing that SEND_ERROR doesn't stop processing the first time you encounter it as a cmake user. But like any other quirk, you get used to it.
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>What would you think about having error "levels" or adding warnings and warning levels, like compilers do?
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>David


The problem is that once you get an error, there is a good chance errors will scroll off the
screen.  Perhaps it would be better to have a maximum number of errors that cmake prints.


-Bill