[petsc-dev] Experimental GNU make build system

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 23 May 2013, Satish Balay wrote:

> On Thu, 23 May 2013, Jed Brown wrote:
> 
> > Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
> > 
> > > This issue is now fixed in cygwin dll [snapshot].
> > >
> > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-05/msg00342.html
> > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-05/msg00348.html
> > 
> > Does this mean we shouldn't bother with a work-around, or we should have
> > configure test whether the bug exists and work around it only when
> > necessary?
> 
> I guess we could workarround only when necessary. [We'll have to
> change the check to be on cygwin version - but a new fixed version is
> not yet released]
> 
> Configure currently has some conditional code on cygwin version.  With
> gnumake - we could perhaps add similar check directly in the makefile :)

Pushed a check to 'balay/gnumake-cygwin'

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commit 9044defc4215d73a805105aae748d53a5be06605
Author: Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov>
Date:   Tue May 28 14:19:40 2013 -0500

    gmake: check cygwin version - and its 1.7.18 or older, use V=1
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Also pushed the following to 'jed/gnumake'

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commit 98a400349847cf14d7f7ce4945a32c59fde5e766
Author: Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov>
Date:   Tue May 28 12:59:16 2013 -0500

    gmake: add --with-shared-libraries=0 mode
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Yet to check:

- LOCDIR/SDIR stuff

- configure check for '-MMD -MP' stuff..

Satish