Johan Hake wrote: > On Sunday 27 September 2009 19:49:09 Garth N. Wells wrote: >> Where's the appropriate place in the build system to test for the >> version number of external libraries? Is it in dolfin/SConscript (using >> the simula-scons function 'checkVersion')? > > I do not think we have any defined sections in SConstruct/SConscript where > this should be done. We have used checkVersion to check for the swig version > some years ago... It is still there as out-commented code in the SConscript > file. > > I think the function just compare a version string with another handed > version > string, where the numbers are delimited by '.'. > > Aren't there any version checks done in the pkg-config generator files? >
No, but I guess that's not the place to do it since they are unrelated to DOLFIN and just produce a foo.pc file. I guest the right way is to use 'pkg-config --version foo.pc' rather than checkVersion. Still, I don't know where this check is best performed. My motivation for this is to require PETSc >= 3 so the that PETsc wrappers can cleaned up. Garth > Johan _______________________________________________ DOLFIN-dev mailing list DOLFIN-dev@fenics.org http://www.fenics.org/mailman/listinfo/dolfin-dev
