[petsc-dev] Fwd: cmake issue

[Matthew Knepley]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

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> Jed wrote
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> As for the other issue (CC="gcc -m32" and such), would it be acceptable to
> make all of BuildSystem (instead of just the cmake part) convert that to,
> effectively, CC=gcc CFLAGS="-m32" LDFLAGS="-m32"?
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>   Matt and Satish,
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>   So if the user does --with-cc="gcc options" would it be ok if configure
> stripped those options from cc and stuck them into the CFLAGS and LDFLAGS
> variables of configure automatically? Or is there a problem with that>?
>

I see at least one problem with this, namely that 'options' would need to be
in CPPFLAGS if the C compiler
was being used as the preprocessor. I do not like this because the user told
us what they wanted. If they
wanted options in CFLAGS, its jsut as easy to put it there.

   Matt


>   Barry
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