[Nek5000-users] [*] new build system

[nek5000-users at lists.mcs.anl.gov]

Well cmake is not available on all machines and we don't want to start distributing it with the source.
Thanks for your feedback.

Stefan

On May 19, 2010, at 1:04 PM, nek5000-users at lists.mcs.anl.gov wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>    So far I've had no problems with the current build system. Infact it was quite easy to use, given that we only need to change options in the makenek script to fine tune the build.
> 
>    But if you want to change it, how about using the cmake system? In addition to doing the same thing as the proposed nekconfigure.in, it give pretty output while compiling:P.
> 
> Regards,
> Mani chandra
> On 05/19/2010 03:18 PM, nek5000-users at lists.mcs.anl.gov wrote:
>> Dear Nek users,
>> 
>> we have an ongoing discussion about a new build system for Nek.
>> 
>> What do you think about the current build system?
>> How easy is it to compile Nek?
>> What can be improved / What's missing?
>> 
>> One major complain was that the current build system does not follow the standard procedure of configure; make; make install.
>> 
>> We may want to follow the standard more closely. One idea would be to have a nekconfigure.in file to specify the compiler, flags, etc. and you need to run nekconfigure to create a makefile for your environment.  After that you can use the classical GNU make utility to compile the code.
>> 
>> Your feedback is welcome!
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Stefan
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> Nek5000-users mailing list
>> Nek5000-users at lists.mcs.anl.gov
>> https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/nek5000-users
>> 
>>   
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Nek5000-users mailing list
> Nek5000-users at lists.mcs.anl.gov
> https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/nek5000-users