[petsc-dev] making make cmake less verbose

[Sean Farley]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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> On Dec 13, 2012, at 3:18 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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>> It is displaying all the debugging information. You'll only get the useful information if you run this:
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>> make -j5 -C arch-gnu
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>    Yes, your suggestion is not verbose because it doesn't do anything
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> Barrys-MacBook-Pro:tutorials barrysmith$ make -j5 -C arch-gnu
> make: *** arch-gnu: No such file or directory.  Stop.
> Barrys-MacBook-Pro:tutorials barrysmith$ pwd
> /Users/barrysmith/Src/petsc-dev/src/snes/examples/tutorials
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>    I don't want a "clean" top-level only command, like make cmake I want to run this command from whatever directory I am in and have it work correctly.
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>     I guess I'll just add the rule   ccmake: pushd ${PETSC_DIR} ; make -j5 -C ${PETSC_ARCH}; popd in the conf/rules makefile, would that be reasonable?

What's wrong with `make -C $PETSC_DIR/$PETSC_ARCH`? You could even set
this as an alias if you don't like typing that much.