> On Apr 11, 2017, at 11:53 AM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > Barry Smith <[email protected]> writes: > >>> On Apr 11, 2017, at 10:43 AM, Joachim Wuttke <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> The PETSc FAQ recommends to use the FindPETSc.cmake module >> >> Jed, >> >> Is it time to update the PETSc FAQ and remove the "recommendation"? I >> thought you had developed a simpler way of handling that does not require >> cmake? > > The pkg-config updates are in 'maint', but have not yet been released > (in 3.7.5). I would say we should update the recommendations when we > release 3.8. > > If we're committing to gnumake,
We are committed to gnumake! Feel free to rely on it. > we can greatly improve PETSc makefiles. > I feel dirty every time the current makefiles (with their anti-patterns > and lack of namespacing) are recommended for users.
