From 6018c2799374ddad7d3eb96618dfcca74a915e93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:37:50 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] BUG: Clarified confusing error message.

---
 Source/cmMakefile.cxx | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Source/cmMakefile.cxx b/Source/cmMakefile.cxx
index f288e8418..383e1e0b6 100644
--- a/Source/cmMakefile.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmMakefile.cxx
@@ -757,7 +757,11 @@ void cmMakefile::AddLinkLibraryForTarget(const char *target,
     }
   else
     {
-    cmSystemTools::Error("Attempt to add link libraries to non-existant target: ",  target, " for lib ", lib);
+    cmOStringStream e;
+    e << "Attempt to add link library \""
+      << lib << "\" to target \""
+      << target << "\" which is not built by this project.";
+    cmSystemTools::Error(e.str().c_str());
     }
 }