> On Apr 11, 2017, at 1:33 PM, Satish Balay <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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]
Make it so. > > 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. >> >
