[petsc-dev] cmakeboot.py is a total disaster needs fixing or removal

[Satish Balay]

Barry,

Does --with-cmake=0 workarround this?

Satish

On Mon, 23 May 2011, Barry Smith wrote:

> 
>    Jed,
> 
>     I can no longer configure!
> 
> 
>     You move a bunch of stuff that has nothing to do with cmake into cmakeboot.py  for example    self.make          = self.framework.require('config.programs',        None)
> now if your silly cmakeboot stuff doesn't work then variables like OMAKE are never defined in the generated petscvariables file and so nothing can get built. Pisses me off, it is fine to support cmake but don't make it the goddamn center of PETSc.
> 
>    I am stuck without PETSc because I don't have a clue why this is happening.
> 
>    Barry
> 
> [see attached file: configure.log]
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