On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> writes: > >> I'm inclined to do this because it's less code and simpler logic, thus > >> the easiest to explain. If they don't set CFLAGS, of course we have to > >> automatically choose reasonable defaults based on --with-debugging. > >> > > > > I think changing to this is worse than what we currently have. > > Why? > > I just talked to Brad and he mentioned that he tried to use CFLAGS and > the optimization flags were masked. If COPTFLAGS is not clear to an > expert like him, something is wrong with what we have. > I think this is not a failure of scheme, but rather of documentation, Many many people also screw up the FieldSplit stuff but I still think that is right too. Matt -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener
