This sounds good Ben... thanks for looking into it. How hard was it to go through the code and change all of the #ifdefs and such?
Derek On Sep 17, 2008, at 8:06 AM, Benjamin Kirk wrote: > I am about to check in a substantial change set that prefixes every > variable > in include/base/libmesh_config.h with LIBMESH_ to avoid conflicts with > external packages. > > I found an autoconf macro designed to do just that. The process is > a little > convoluted and deserves some explanation. > > Because of all the builtin variables (SIZEOF_INT, etc...) it is not as > simple as changing all out AC_DEFINES(HAVE_ to AC_DEFINE(LIBMESH_HAVE_ > What happens is the last step of ./configure goes through > libmesh_config.h > and prefixes everything with LIBMESH_ > > So, the aclocal.m4 code will say AC_DEFINE(HAVE_MPI), but the actual > symbol > will be LIBMESH_HAVE_MPI. That is a little confusing, I know, but > it was > the most straightforward implementation. > > -Ben > > PS: in doing this, I came across the following, which replaces > strings in a > list of files in place > > usage: > ./greplace STRING1 STRING2 ./src/*/*.C ./include/*/*.h > > #!/bin/sh > > # > # greplace > # > # Globally replace one string with another in a set of files > # > > src=$1 > shift > dest=$1 > shift > > /usr/bin/perl -p -i -e "s/$src/$dest/g" $@ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win > great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in > the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Libmesh-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Libmesh-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-devel
