[petsc-dev] Fwd: [petsc-maint #113654] Configure Problem

[Barry Smith]

   I guess this means this is on the petsc-dev to do list


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Sean Farley <sean at mcs.anl.gov>
> Date: April 22, 2012 11:04:03 AM CDT
> To: petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov>
> Cc: Dave Nystrom <Dave.Nystrom at tachyonlogic.com>
> Subject: Re: [petsc-maint #113654] Configure Problem
> 
>>    The good folks at kitware apparently STILL don't know how to compile cuda code. Hence if you ./configure with cuda stuff it will not allow the use of cmake since cmake cannot handle building the cuda part of PETSc. Thus the cmake build option was automatically turned off.
> 
> That's not true, Barry. cmake >1.8 can compile cuda ... we just
> haven't written it yet.