[petsc-dev] [petsc-users] FindPETSc.cmake expects petscvariables in wrong location

[Barry Smith]

> On Apr 11, 2017, at 1:33 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2017, Jed Brown wrote:
> 
>> Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>> 
>>>> On Apr 11, 2017, at 10:43 AM, Joachim Wuttke <j.wuttke at fz-juelich.de> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> The PETSc FAQ recommends to use the FindPETSc.cmake module
>>> 
>>>   Jed,
>>> 
>>>       Is it time to update the PETSc FAQ and remove the "recommendation"?  I thought you had developed a simpler way of handling that does not require cmake?
>> 
>> The pkg-config updates are in 'maint', but have not yet been released
>> (in 3.7.5).  I would say we should update the recommendations when we
>> release 3.8.
> 
> We should at some point add --download-pkg-config - hoping that would
> make it universally useable [even on machines without pkg-config]

   Make it so.


> 
> Satish
> 
>> 
>> If we're committing to gnumake, we can greatly improve PETSc makefiles.
>> I feel dirty every time the current makefiles (with their anti-patterns
>> and lack of namespacing) are recommended for users.
>> 
>