[petsc-dev] metis config error on XT4

[Barry Smith]

On Nov 30, 2011, at 4:44 PM, Jed Brown wrote:

> 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.

  A well designed buildsystem would not allow itself to be misused.