[petsc-dev] remnants of pkg-config in BuildSystem?

[Barry Smith]

On Nov 7, 2012, at 5:49 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>    Plus doesn't any HPC open source package generate a correct one for itself that we can use?
> 
> FFTW,
  
   Ok

> Open MPI, MPICH2,

   Isn't this totally ir-fucking-relevent since we use the mpicc compiler wrappers and that hides (by design) the includes and libs (and even the compilers :-))?

> and system stuff.

   Yes, but what specific things that we use?

   Oh, cool yaml has them, now if we could only generate real uses of yaml :-)


> Dolfin used to (four years ago) generate them for itself and any package it depends on, don't know if it still does.