[MOAB-dev] [PATCH 2/2] libiGeomMOAB Needs to link libiMesh

[Iulian Grindeanu]

----- Original Message -----
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 14:45, Iulian Grindeanu < iulian at mcs.anl.gov >
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> We may have problems, that iGeom_MOAB implementation is not well
> maintained now.
> I need to change it to use FBEngine
> 
> I am not sure about other applications, which may need iGeom
> implemented in CGM.
> 
> Using FBEngine directly might not be an option for you (it is not
> iGeom)
> 
> 
> I'm not even depending on it for anything significant, but I set up
> the build system to build this stuff and installing a library that
> doesn't link properly is no good. Most of my stuff doesn't even call
> iGeom at all. But I'd rather not have to change the build system to
> recover gracefully if iGeom "exists", but is not being linkable due to
> undefined symbols.
> 
> 
> So why not either turn it off completely (don't compile it/don't
> install it) or make it linkable?

iGeom in MOAB is built only if you use "--enable-igeom" in configure options.
And it is only a partial implementation (it will never be complete :( )