[petsc-dev] [petsc-users] FindPETSc.cmake expects petscvariables in wrong location

[Satish Balay]

On Tue, 11 Apr 2017, Barry Smith wrote:

> 
> > On Apr 11, 2017, at 10:43 AM, Joachim Wuttke <j.wuttke at fz-juelich.de> wrote:
> > 
> > The PETSc FAQ recommends to use the FindPETSc.cmake module
> 
>    Jed,
> 
>        Is it time to update the PETSc FAQ and remove the "recommendation"?  I thought you had developed a simpler way of handling that does not require cmake?

>>>>>>>
Can I use CMake to build my own project that depends on PETSc?

Use the FindPETSc.cmake module from this repository. See the CMakeLists.txt from Dohp for example usage.
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So its just a recommendation for cmake users?

 For regular use - we recommend using petsc makefiles. [and once we
have a decent pkg-config infrastructure - we could swith to
recommending that..]

Satish

> 
>    Barry
> 
> 
> 
> > from the repository https://github.com/jedbrown/cmake-modules.
> > 
> > This doesn't work for me. CMake fails with the following message:
> >  CMake Error at cmake/modules/FindPETSc.cmake:125 (message):
> >    The pair PETSC_DIR=/usr/lib/src/petsc-3.7.5 PETSC_ARCH=linux-amd64 do not
> >    specify a valid PETSc installation
> > 
> > Line 115 of FindPETSc.cmake shows that the file petscvariables
> > is expected at location
> >  ${PETSC_DIR}/${PETSC_ARCH}/lib/petsc/conf/petscvariables
> > 
> > However, in the current source archive, it is located in
> >  ${PETSC_DIR}/lib/petsc/conf/petscvariables,
> > and the default install procedure does not copy it to ${PETSC_ARCH}.
> > 
> > 
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