[petsc-dev] CMake

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 18 Dec 2013, Jed Brown wrote:

> Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Now that it is no longer the default build, can we stop it generating
> > Makefile in $PETSC_ARCH?
> 
> Should we just stop autodetecting the "cmake" executable?  Users that
> want it can use --with-cmake=/usr/bin/cmake.

We do need cmake for some externalpackages - so we might have to add
a --with-petsc-buid-with-cmake option or equivalent.

Alternate is to have all cmake files in PETSC_DIR/PETSC_ARCH/cmakebuild [instead
of the current location PETSC_DIR/PETSC_ARCH]

Satish