[petsc-dev] Experimental GNU make build system

[Satish Balay]

On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, Jed Brown wrote:

> Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
> 
> > Perhaps we should split up AR command into multiple invocations? [for windows?]
> 
> We discussed this earlier in this thread [1]:
> 
> http://mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=87bo81sjsr.fsf@mcs.anl.gov
> 
> I prefer response files to incremental AR because response files also
> work for shared libraries.

Win32fe isn't handling response files - so I think its easier to have
conf/gmakegen.py split up the archiver into multiple invocations for
windows/win32fe usage - than fix win32fe. [since we are planing on
eliminating win32fe anyway]

Satish

> [1] Trying the mail-archive link because I can't link to our archives
> without brute-force search through the dozens of emails in the thread.
>