[petsc-dev] sizeof(PetscInt) from buildsystem

[Satish Balay]

On Tue, 6 May 2014, Garth N. Wells wrote:

> On 2014-05-06 10:12, Jed Brown wrote:
> > r<#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign>
> > "Garth N. Wells" <gnw20 at cam.ac.uk> writes:
> > > Not ideal, and I guess it's not platform-independent, i.e. Windows.
> > > 
> > > I could build a trivial program that printfs sizeof(PetscInt), but my
> > > first preference would be to extend our current approach using make and
> > > petscvariables.
> > 
> > Is make running on windows without grep?
> > 
> 
> I don't know - that's why I used 'guess'.

PETSc makefiles use unix tools extensively [like grep and others] - so
if this basic infrastructure is missing - makefiles won't work.

[hence the reliance on cygwin - to install PETSc on windows]

Satish