From f18ab542b4b4efcf3e319d3fdb5c6a1ed7897e04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rbock <rbock@eudoxos.de>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 19:56:32 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Made the check for date.h a bit more user friendly

---
 CMakeLists.txt | 20 +++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 9f155e689..c9dfa8bb1 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2013-2015, Roland Bock
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2016, Roland Bock
 # All rights reserved.
 #
 # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification,
@@ -32,14 +32,20 @@ add_library(sqlpp11 INTERFACE)
 set(DATE_INCLUDE_DIR "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../date" CACHE FILEPATH "Path to Howard Hinnant's date library")
 
 if(NOT EXISTS ${DATE_INCLUDE_DIR}/date.h)
-  message(SEND_ERROR "Can't find date.h in ${DATE_INCLUDE_DIR}")
+	message(SEND_ERROR "Can't find file date.h and cannot compile date_test/date_test.cpp")
+	message("Can't find date.h in ${DATE_INCLUDE_DIR} ")
+	message("Please either")
+	message("  - git clone https://github.com/howardhinnant/date ${DATE_INCLUDE_DIR}")
+	message("  - download and unzip a current version from https://github.com/howardhinnant/date to ${DATE_INCLUDE_DIR}")
+	message("  - set DATE_INCLUDE_DIR to point to the dir containing date.h from the date library")
+	message("")
+else()
+	target_include_directories(sqlpp11 INTERFACE
+		$<BUILD_INTERFACE:${DATE_INCLUDE_DIR}>
+		$<BUILD_INTERFACE:${sqlpp11_SOURCE_DIR}/include>
+		)
 endif()
 
-target_include_directories(sqlpp11 INTERFACE
-  $<BUILD_INTERFACE:${DATE_INCLUDE_DIR}>
-  $<BUILD_INTERFACE:${sqlpp11_SOURCE_DIR}/include>
-  )
-
 if (NOT MSVC)
 target_compile_features(sqlpp11 INTERFACE
 	cxx_alias_templates