[petsc-dev] metis config error on XT4

Jed Brown jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov
Wed Nov 30 16:44:02 CST 2011


On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 16:40, Jack Poulson <jack.poulson at gmail.com> wrote:

> No, but perhaps I should. My understanding is that those lines only need
> to be changed when ParMetis is included as a subproject, as they seem to
> have configured the build system to use relative paths.


That's a misuse of CMake. Normally you build from a separate build
directory (so that you can clean reliably and independently between
configurations). That ParMetis misuses CMake by default isn't an excuse for
not allowing it to be used properly.
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