[petsc-dev] BuildSystem Docs

[Matthew Knepley]

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Ward, Duane L <Duane.Ward at pnnl.gov> wrote:

>  I’m looking into using the PETSc BuildSystem for software other than
> PETSc.  This system seems to have a lot of functionality but I’m having some
> difficulty in figuring out what is needed to write a new module for use with
> BuildSystem.  I tried building the docs but didn’t have much luck.  Is there
> another place where I could grab the documentation on BuildSystem?
>

Did you read the documentation at the top of the source files, start with
framework.py and base.py.
It is somewhat long and fairly specific. I also made a minimal configure
example:

  http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/simpleConfigure/

    Matt


>
> Thanks for any help you can provide,
> Duane
>
>



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