On Tue, 11 Apr 2017, Jed Brown 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.
We should at some point add --download-pkg-config - hoping that would make it universally useable [even on machines without pkg-config] Satish > > If we're committing to gnumake, 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. >
