[petsc-dev] CMake: make, install, find_package ?

[Matthew Knepley]

On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 8:57 AM, Franck Houssen <franck.houssen at inria.fr>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Does PETSc provide support for CMake ? I would say this is an on-going
> feature that is not yet fully working, right ?
>
> My understanding is that "./configure" generates the CMakeLists.txt. But
> then, when using cmake, make fails.
> Is this supposed to work yet ? Or is this on-going dev ? (google is
> misleading about that, and, not seen anything in the doc)
>

We supported this a few years ago, but the obscene brokeness of CMake makes
this impossible, so it is no longer supported.

  Thanks,

    Matt


> Franck
>
> PS : I got it to work (partially - for petsc, not external packages) on my
> laptop (debian). I may (?) push I somebody is interested to have a look (on
> going dev ?).
>



-- 
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
experiments lead.
-- Norbert Wiener

https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/ <http://www.caam.rice.edu/~mk51/>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20171105/d0f14a54/attachment.html>