[petsc-dev] reminder never use #include "mylocalinclude.h" in PETSc source

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Jed Brown <jed at 59a2.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 4 May 2010 11:21:25 -0500, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Each configure test is a Python module. The modules are organized in a
> > DB.  You can request a module using its full name. When you get the
> > module reference you can query all of its attributes. For instance,
> >
> >   config.PETSc.utilities.scalarTypes has attribute "scalartype" which
> > can be "real" or "complex"
> >
> > Same for 3rd party packages, which all inherit from
> > config.package.Package.
>
> I wasn't asking how these values were set.  Looking at the source, I see
> that checkDir() parses the makefiles and processes lines starting with
> #requires.


I see. Yes, it currently uses the makefile organization. This is the kind of
metadata
that Barry would like in a DB rather than in makefiles.

   Matt


>
> Jed

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