[petsc-dev] no module named cmakegen

[Satish Balay]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Jed Brown wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:40:02 -0500 (CDT), Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> > Jed,
> > 
> > Looks like cmakegen is at bin/maint/cmakegen.py. However maint is
> > excluded from the tarball - so it should go somewhere else..
> > 
> > perhaps config/cmake/xx?
> 
> I think iphonebuilder.py also needs an alternate location since it's
> configure-time functionality.
> 
> I was also discussing with Matt about what is required to portably
> "import script" (e.g. when the PETSC_DIR environment variable is not
> set).  checkBuilds.py has something relatively involved, but also uses
> $PWD, which I think is more evil than requiring something in the
> environment.  This is mostly a issue when running configure.py without
> setting PETSC_DIR.  In the case of running scripts (via import xxx,
> xxx.main()), perhaps configure should put PETSC_DIR in it's exported
> environment?

Well currently configure is to be invoked in PETSC_DIR - and the py scripts
generally use relative paths to find each other. For eg: config/configure.py has:

  # Should be run from the toplevel
  configDir = os.path.abspath('config')
  bsDir     = os.path.join(configDir, 'BuildSystem')

Satish

> I just bumped the minimum cmake version from 2.6.0 to 2.6.2.  As a
> longer-term matter, cmake should probably be run with a time limit and
> redirected stdout.  I'll look at it shortly.
> 
> Jed
>