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["Garth N. Wells" <g.n.wells@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Logg wrote:
> No particular reason. There are two other options:
> 
>   1. Don't specify CXX explicitly in the Makefile so it defaults
>      to the standard compiler
>

We should be able to choose the compiler. There are a bunch of reasons
why one might want something other than the default compiler.

>   2. Add a flag --variable=compiler to dolfin.pc and use the compiler
>      that was used to compile DOLFIN
> 

Seems ok to me.

> Any suggestions?
> 
> What about the linker? Do we need libtool? Or can we just use CXX for
> that as well?
> 

Looks like libtool is no longer required because the location of the
libraries has been added to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so I guess we can get rid
of it.

Garth

> It would be good if the demo Makefiles were as simple as they can
> possibly be. 
> 
> /Anders
> 
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 03:21:15PM +0200, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>> Why is the compiler (g++) specified explicitly in the Makefiles for the
>> demos?
>>
>> Garth
>>
>>
>> Anders Logg wrote:
>>> I have moved all the demo Makefiles from dolfin-config to pkg-config.
>>> Please check that it works for everyone.
>>>
>>> The only thing currently holding us back from removing dolfin-config
>>> is that it is used by PyDOLFIN. Johan, could you try to remove the
>>> dependeny in PyDOLFIN? If you need extra flags you can just add them
>>> to dolfin.pc.in.
>>>
>>> If you add the line
>>>
>>> foo=bar
>>>
>>> in dolfin.pc.in (and regenerate), then dolfin-config --variable=foo
>>> returns bar.
>>>
>>> /Anders
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