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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 09:50:36AM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 10:48 +0200, Anders Logg wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 09:46:03AM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 10:32 +0200, Anders Logg wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 09:26:06AM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 09:47 +0200, Anders Logg wrote:
> > > > > > Maybe a .cmake file will be useful, but I think the first option
> > > > > > should be to (1) generate a pkg-config file and (2) use simple
> > > > > > Makefiles for all the demos.
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > A .cmake file is probably a bit more than just useful if we want to take
> > > > > advantage of the cross-platform features of CMake.
> > > >
> > > > ok.
> > > >
> > > > > An awkwardness with pkg-config + CMake is that we need a FindFoo.cmake
> > > > > file for each dependency, then we also need to create a pkg-config for
> > > > > each dependency, both of which do more or less the same thing. We
> > > > > created pkg-config files with SCons, so hopefully this is just as easy
> > > > > with CMake.
> > > >
> > > > Do we really need to create pkg-config files for all dependencies? It
> > > > should be enough for us to provide the flags for how to build against
> > > > DOLFIN (which in turn is linked against its dependendices).
> > > >
> > >
> > > It would work, but is not very elegant. It wouldn't be possible to pick
> > > and use which version of a library to use (not that we do that now ;)).
> > >
> > > Garth
> >
> > Isn't that decided at compile time (for DOLFIN)? If we build DOLFIN
> > against a certain version of PETSc, I imagine it would break hard if
> > someone tried to later change that to another PETSc version.
> >
>
> I would expect it to work if I switched between say debug and optimised
> versions of PETSc, or if I decided to move a library from one location
> to another.

ok. I've never done that but perhaps it's a feature we need.

--
Anders

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