[petsc-users] petsc cmake config - BUILD_SHARED_LIBS

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Arne Morten Kvarving <
Arne.Morten.Kvarving at sintef.no> wrote:

> Yes that is the file. Cmake is beautiful for configuration, python is a
> mess - all is in the eye of the beholder. I have my answer. I will patch as
> long as the file exists and deal with a
>

No, some things are actually better than other things. This is why its
engineering and not art appreciation.

  Matt


> better way when I have to. The fact that the file is named, and looks
> like, a cmake config mode file had me confused.
>
> -------- Opprinnelig melding --------
> Fra: Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org>
> Dato: 13.10.2015 18.15 (GMT+01:00)
> Til: Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov>, Arne Morten Kvarving <
> Arne.Morten.Kvarving at sintef.no>
> Ko: petsc-users <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov>
> Emne: Re: [petsc-users] petsc cmake config - BUILD_SHARED_LIBS
>
> Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>
> > As mentioned - PETScConfig.cmake is primarily for building PETSc - and
> > not equivalent to .pc file
>
>   def dumpCMakeConfig(self):
>     '''
>     Writes configuration-specific values to
> ${PETSC_ARCH}/lib/petsc/conf/PETScConfig.cmake.
>     This file is private to PETSc and should not be included by third
> parties
>     (a suitable file can be produced later by CMake, but this is not it).
>     '''
>
> Arne, is this the file you are talking about?  It is part of the legacy
> cmake build and is used to hold the various ARCH-specific variables when
> building PETSc.  (Note that this build does not use CMake for configure
> since CMake is disgusting for that purpose and also because we needed to
> ensure that it makes all the same decisions as our configure.)  It's not
> for users and should not be installed.
>
> If you want a pkgconfig file, just use PETSc.pc.  Or use FindPETSc.cmake.
>



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