On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> > On Nov 30, 2011, at 4:44 PM, Jed Brown wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 16:40, Jack Poulson <jack.poulson at gmail.com> > wrote: > > No, but perhaps I should. My understanding is that those lines only need > to be changed when ParMetis is included as a subproject, as they seem to > have configured the build system to use relative paths. > > > > That's a misuse of CMake. Normally you build from a separate build > directory (so that you can clean reliably and independently between > configurations). That ParMetis misuses CMake by default isn't an excuse for > not allowing it to be used properly. > > A well designed buildsystem would not allow itself to be misused. > I am adding code to BuildSystem to electrocute users who try to screw with it. Matt -- 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20111130/516fe8e9/attachment.html>