After all of these years: I still dislike the Automake build system in
libMesh. I still can't believe that we threw out a perfectly decent build
system and saddled ourselves with this thing.
In hindsight: do you guys TRULY think it was worth it?
I still maintain a set of scripts that allow me to do in-tree builds. In
addition - I often prototype things in MOOSE / a new MOOSE application
before moving it down to libMesh (if I ever do - I am also just
increasingly NOT moving stuff to libMesh!). All of this because of the
build system.
All I'm trying to do right now is add ONE damn header file - and I can't
seem to find the magic script / sauce to get everything updated. I
ran include/rebuild_include_HEADERS.sh ... nope. I ran bootstrap... still
nope. Oh! Now I remember... I need to run
include/libmesh/rebuild_makefile.sh... NOPE!
Ok - 100% serious here. If I redo the libMesh build system so that it's
autoconf and make based again - would you guys consider switching to it? I
am willing to even code up a "make install" (which I believe was the
original reason for wanting to use Automake).
Derek
PS - if anyone could tell me what I need to do to get the symlink built in
include/libmesh for a new header file I would greatly appreciate it!
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