[petsc-dev] Experimental GNU make build system

[Matthew Knepley]

On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>
> > Why pass it to the linker?
>
> Matt, is it going to break something (builder.py?) to only test the
> compiler?
>

I guess we will find out, and then one of us will be on the ball enough to
comment the behavior.

   Matt


> > On May 29, 2013 8:32 AM, "Matthew Knepley" <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Tue, 28 May 2013, Satish Balay wrote:
> >>>
> >>> > Yet to check:
> >>> > - configure check for '-MMD -MP' stuff..
> >>>
> >>> I see there is already a configure test for this in
> >>> config/BuildSystem/config/compilers.py using -with-dependencies=1
> >>> [default] - but no makefile flag is set.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Thats fine.
> >>
> >>
> >>> So perhaps the following fix? [in balay/gmake-config-dpecheck]
> >>>
> >>>
> https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/commits/ee7bb8786b51b19508b610eb8895baeeae528351
> >>>
> >>> Matt, BTW: does this thing have to do a link test using -MMD?
> >>> [Shouldn't it be a compile only test?]
> >>>
> >>
> >> This is to make sure the flag does not screw up links.
> >>
> >>    Matt
> >>
> >>
> >>> thanks,
> >>> Satish
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
> >> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which
> their
> >> experiments lead.
> >> -- Norbert Wiener
> >>
>



-- 
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
experiments lead.
-- Norbert Wiener
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