[petsc-dev] MAKE_NP and other makefile quirks

[Barry Smith]

> On Jan 2, 2015, at 9:35 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
> 
> Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
> 
>> If you are having problems with parallel build - you could do:
>> 
>> make MAKE_NP=1 all
> 
> How long do we have to keep this funny business?  Can we get some data
> about how often legacy make is used/needed?

  I am fine with removing cmake and legacy make from master and seeing where the chips fall; if none fall then the next release won't have them and we'll see again if any chips fall (and fix/revert as needed).

  Barry