I get a lot of conflicts relating to the Makefiles (in the library and
example codes) whenever I do an svn up. Anyway I can avoid this ?
Thanks.
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311) <
benjamin.kir...@nasa.gov> wrote:
> A few weeks ago configure created include/libmesh/libmesh_config.h
> directly. But then I noticed that the path to where the config file is
> written is added automatically to the search path. In this case that was
> include/libmesh, making it impossible to enforce our prefixing in the build
> tree.
>
> So now we write the config file in include and symlink in.
>
> Vikrams error is because there is a stale libmesh_config.h from an old
> invocation of configure, and now ln is refusing to overwrite it.
>
> Manually removing that file should fix it.
>
> -Ben
>
>
>
> On Dec 6, 2012, at 5:42 PM, "Roy Stogner" <royst...@ices.utexas.edu>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Vikram just hit the error:
> > "ln: failed to create symbolic link `libmesh_version.h': File exists"
> > after an svn up.
> >
> > Looking at our include/libmesh/Makefile.am, I can't seem to figure out
> > why, though - if a symlink exists, then it should be pointing to its
> > target, in which case it should have the same time stamp as its
> > target, in which case Make shouldn't try to invoke the "LN_S" rule to
> > rebuild it. If "ln -s" *does* get called, then that would result in
> > Vikram's error, though...
> > ---
> > Roy
>
--
Vikram Garg
Postdoctoral Associate
Center for Computational Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://www.runforindia.org/runners/vikramg
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