dolfin team mailing list archive

[jhoffman@xxxxxxxxxxx]

> On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 12:31:09PM -0500, Anders Logg wrote:
>
> ...
>
>> I think we should set up both PETSc and DOLFIN to do dynamic
>> linking. The size of a compiled DOLFIN source tree is now 1.8GB...
>> Even before with PETSc linked statically, the size was around 700MB.
>>
>> Maybe we should start looking at using libtool? I don't know how to
>> use it, so I might need some help.
>>
>> In the meantime, I will add a new target 'demo' to make and change so
>> that the standard target 'all' does not compile the demo programs.
>> (But then all maintainers must remember to do a 'make demo' before
>> checking something in!)
>>
>> I will fix this after lunch and then the new version.
>>
>> /Anders
>>
>
> Apparently you needed to do:
>
> ./config/configure.py --with-clanguage=cxx --with-shared=1
>
> to make PETSc build shared libraries. So now the binaries are back to
> about 10MB a piece, which is more manageable.
>
> I also think we should start building shared libraries (using libtool
> seems like a good way), but it's not very high priority in my
> opinion. I think the "make demo" solution is better and sufficient for
> now.
>
>   Johan
>

I agree that the 'make demo' solution would be a good idea, since we seem
to lack sufficient 'libtool' know-how at this point.

/Johan

> _______________________________________________
> DOLFIN-dev mailing list
> DOLFIN-dev@xxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.fenics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dolfin-dev
>