On Nov 30, 2011, at 4:44 PM, Jed Brown wrote: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 16:40, Jack Poulson <jack.poulson at gmail.com> wrote: > No, but perhaps I should. My understanding is that those lines only need to > be changed when ParMetis is included as a subproject, as they seem to have > configured the build system to use relative paths. > > That's a misuse of CMake. Normally you build from a separate build directory > (so that you can clean reliably and independently between configurations). > That ParMetis misuses CMake by default isn't an excuse for not allowing it to > be used properly.
A well designed buildsystem would not allow itself to be misused.