[petsc-dev] snes/ex56 target is gone

[Jed Brown]

Scott Kruger <kruger at txcorp.com> writes:

> On 6/28/17 2:50 PM, Jed Brown wrote:
>> Scott Kruger <kruger at txcorp.com> writes:
>> 
>>> On 6/28/17 1:42 PM, Barry Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Jun 28, 2017, at 2:39 PM, Scott Kruger <kruger at txcorp.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 6/28/17 1:35 PM, Jed Brown wrote:
>>>>>> Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>>>>>>>      Jed,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>       Aside from its name and location this is a very useful thing. Should it be in $PETSC_DIR/lib/petsc/conf/ ? since it cannot stay in $PETSC_DIR for --prefix installs?
>>>>>> I guess that's a reasonable location.  The file isn't platform-dependent
>>>>>> so it could go elsewhere. 
>
> I always thought the standard was:
>    "lib is for libraries and share is for datafiles"
> rather than
>    "lib is for platform-dependent and share is for platform independent".
>
> Actually, the standard itself is confusing as where
> to put platform-dependent datafiles.

What standard?

>> That's fine, but the use is not limited to examples.  If we're calling
>> this the example makefile, we should at least add comments saying how to
>> build more complicated programs.  (Just listing the target dependencies
>> gets you much of the way.  Adding accurate dependencies is slightly more
>> work but we ought to recommend a clean way because lots of people make a
>> mess of it.)
>> 
>
> The example in Makefile.example could refer to
> either "compile examples" 

Yes, it does more than that.

> or "here is an example makefile that you can use as a starting point".

Yes, in which case it should include the stuff mentioned above to help
users extend into good Makefiles.
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