yuri@FreeBSD

Sorry, I don't have resources. I am only a package maintainer. Project authors are expected to make projects installable, otherwise users would simply have no chance to even see your...

```find_package(libzip MODULE REQUIRED)``` looks for Findlibzip.cmake and fails. Both parts are needed.

> But then, how can find_package(libzip REQUIRED) work ? It should also look for Findlibzip.cmake No, it looks for standard cmake files that are installed by libzip and finds them,...

```FreeBSD```

It should detect this during the configure stage.

Not supplying ```--with-metis=/usr/local``` solves the compilation problem, but now it installs ```include/metis.h``` which conflicts with the externally installed ```metis```.

```metis.h``` isn't included from any other headers that ```libmesh``` installs so it looks like a bug that it is installed.

@roystgnr Now with libmesh-1.7.0 this failure occurs with --with-metis=/usr/local as well. The port uses external metis. This condition should be checked during the configure stage. Without ```--with-metis=/usr/local``` another error occurs:...

> if I understand correctly, there is no parmetis.h installed in /usr/local on your system? Yes, there's no parmetis.h.

The command: > mv /usr/ports/math/libmesh/work/stage/usr/local/bin/timpi-config.installed /usr/ports/math/libmesh/work/stage/usr/local/bin/timpi-config asks this interactive question. It is the continued use of very outdated GNU tools that causes problems like this. There are a lot of...