[petsc-dev] Better error message for missing components

[Matthew Knepley]

Can anyone think of a way to get a better message from

[0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message
--------------------------------------------------------------
[0]PETSC ERROR: Unknown type. Check for miss-spelling or missing package:
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/installation.html#external
[0]PETSC ERROR: Unknown PetscViewer type given: hdf5
[0]PETSC ERROR: See http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/faq.html for
trouble shooting.
[0]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Release Version 3.10.2, Oct, 09, 2018
[0]PETSC ERROR: ./testPlex on a  named kif.eng.buffalo.edu by bldenton Mon
Sep 30 21:18:30 2019
[0]PETSC ERROR: Configure options --with-make-np=24
--prefix=/kif1/data/shared/software/libs/petsc/3.10.2/gcc/8.2.0/mpich/3.2.1/openblas/0.2.20/opt
--with-debugging=false --COPTFLAGS="-O3 -mavx" --CXXOPTFLAGS="-O3 -mavx"
--FOPTFLAGS=-O3 --with-shared-libraries=1
--with-mpi-dir=/kif1/data/shared/software/libs/mpich/3.2.1/gcc/8.2.0
--with-mumps=true --download-mumps=1 --with-metis=true --download-metis=1
--with-parmetis=true --download-parmetis=1 --with-superlu=true
--download-superlu=1 --with-superludir=true --download-superlu_dist=1
--with-blacs=true --download-blacs=1 --with-scalapack=true
--download-scalapack=1 --with-hypre=true --download-hypre=1
--with-blas-lib="[/kif1/data/shared/software/libs/openblas/0.2.20/gcc/8.2.0/lib/libopenblas.so]"
--with-lapack-lib="[/kif1/data/shared/software/libs/openblas/0.2.20/gcc/8.2.0/lib/libopenblas.so]"
--LDFLAGS=
[0]PETSC ERROR: #1 PetscViewerSetType() line 444 in
/kif1/data/shared/software/builddir/petsc-L9c6Pv/petsc-3.10.2/src/sys/classes/viewer/interface/viewreg.c
[0]PETSC ERROR: #2 PetscOptionsGetViewer() line 327 in
/kif1/data/shared/software/builddir/petsc-L9c6Pv/petsc-3.10.2/src/sys/classes/viewer/interface/viewreg.c
[0]PETSC ERROR: #3 PetscObjectViewFromOptions() line 133 in
/kif1/data/shared/software/builddir/petsc-L9c6Pv/petsc-3.10.2/src/sys/objects/destroy.c
[0]PETSC ERROR: #4 main() line 210 in
/kif1/data/users/bldenton/EGADSlite/egadsPlex/egadsPlex.c

I want it to say "Try configuring with --download-hdf5"

  Thanks,

     Matt

-- 
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
experiments lead.
-- Norbert Wiener

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