[petsc-users] status of PETSc installation via CMake?

[Satish Balay]

We never had a cmake build infrastructure.. It was always configure && make.

However - earlier on - we did have a mode of using cmake to generate
gnumakefiles [currently depricated - it might still work] - but we've
moved on to using native gnumakefiles - so don't need cmake to
generate them anymore.

To use the cmake generated makefiles - you would do:

./configure && make all-cmake

Satish

On Tue, 11 Apr 2017, Joachim Wuttke wrote:

> The current source archive petsc-3.7.5.tar.gz
> comes with files
> - configure for Autotools based installation
> - CMakeLists.txt for CMake based installation
> 
> However, the installation web page
>   https://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/installation.html
> only mentions "./configure".
> 
> So what is the status of support for CMake based installation?
> 
> The following attempt failed:
>   cd petsc-3.7.5 [the unpacked source archive]
>   mkdir build
>   cd build
>   cmake ..
> Result:
>   [...]
>   CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:4 (include):
>     include could not find load file:
>       /lib/petsc/conf/PETScBuildInternal.cmake
>   -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
> 
> In-place build (which of course is disadvised)
> results in the same error.
> 
> 
>