[petsc-dev] I don't like the location of cmakeboot.py cmakegen.py

[Jed Brown]

Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>   cmakeboot.py is used by stuff in config, so should it really be
>   outside of config?  Can the cmakegen.py stuff be reorganized like
>   the conf/gmakegen.py so that it is not called at all by configure,
>   but is suitably triggered by a make cmake ?

We can.  CMake errors (like hanging or error 256) would show up in "make
cmake".  If we don't mind the 2-second cost of cmakegen, we could just
run it every time.  Otherwise we need an acceptable make rule for the
dependency.
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