From 59a99bb7512b27279376eeda579d5aa656de49cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lars Bilke <lars.bilke@ufz.de>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 09:57:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [Conan] Better help message when multi-config conan generator
 was used.

---
 scripts/cmake/ConanSetup.cmake | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/cmake/ConanSetup.cmake b/scripts/cmake/ConanSetup.cmake
index 37ddf754d5f..260d62a557a 100644
--- a/scripts/cmake/ConanSetup.cmake
+++ b/scripts/cmake/ConanSetup.cmake
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ endif()
 
 if(CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES AND NOT CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE)
     message(FATAL_ERROR "Multi-config generators are not yet supported when "
-        "using Conan. Specify CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE!")
+        "using Conan. Specify CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE, e.g. via cmd line: "
+        "cmake . -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release!")
 endif()
 
 # Treat Conan includes as system includes to suppress warnings
-- 
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