[petsc-users] Building PETSc with cmake

[John Fettig]

What are the requirements for building PETSc with cmake?  I have cmake
version 2.8.1 installed, and configure finds it, but it does nothing
with it.  Is it because my python version is too old?  This is on
CentOS 5, I get these messages about cmake in the configure.log (with
3.2-p0):

Checking for program /usr/local/bin/cmake...found
            Defined make macro "CMAKE" to "/usr/local/bin/cmake"

...

      Skipping cmakegen due to old python version: (2, 4, 3, 'final', 0)
      Skipping cmakeboot due to old python version: (2, 4, 3, 'final', 0)

At the end of the configure, I'm not offered a way to build with
cmake.  I presume that cmake is the only way to do a parallel build?

John