Archive from user: Chris Neale It appears that when compiling gromacs 5.1.2 with the cmake option -DGMX\_USE\_PLUGINS=ON that also adding the cmake option -DGMX\_PREFER\_STATIC\_LIBS=ON causes the plugins to be silently abandoned. Suggest to force failure with a message that GMX\_USE\_PLUGINS=ON is incompatible with GMX\_PREFER\_STATIC\_LIBS=ON More information is here: https://mailman-1.sys.kth.se/pipermail/gromacs.org\_gmx-users/2016-November/109605.html *(from redmine: issue id 2082, created on 2016-11-23 by gmxdefault, closed on 2017-01-20)* * Relations: * relates #598 * Changesets: * Revision f6eacdd8b915e382b20c6abea27d94b714aea119 by Mark Abraham on 2016-12-20T20:28:09Z: ``` Improve build system for plugin support The mdrun-only and prefer-static-libs builds set the default for BUILD_SHARED_LIBS to off, which silently disabled plugin support. Converted GMX_LOAD_PLUGINS to tri-state ON/OFF/AUTO so that if the preconditions for support are not met we can have suitable behaviour in each case. We now write to the status line only when something relevant changes, and issue a usefully descriptive fatal error only when the user's request cannot be satisfied. Renamed and reimplemented VMD_QUIETLY as EMIT_STATUS_MESSAGES. Moved the reorganized code to its own source file. Refs #2082 Change-Id: I0ad2d8423abbc8d8cb409e74325f2b00831644ea ```