Re: [Libmesh-devel] LIBMESHDIR

2008-10-09 Thread Derek Gaston
Around here all of our makefiles use $LIBMESH_DIR to find libmesh and it works out well. As long we're talking about changes to the makefile is there anyway we could create a variable like "$LIBMESH_LIB" or some such that points directly to the libmesh.so/a? I would really like to be able t

Re: [Libmesh-devel] LIBMESHDIR

2008-10-09 Thread Roy Stogner
Derek Gaston wrote: > Around here all of our makefiles use $LIBMESH_DIR to find libmesh and it > works out well. Good to hear. Only one problem I see - John pointed out that he'd never seen the "?=" assignment operator before, and I think that may be because it's GNU make specific. Does anyon

[Libmesh-devel] LIBMESHDIR

2008-10-09 Thread Roy Stogner
I'm planning to add optional LIBMESH_DIR (and eventually LIBMESH_ARCH if we want to get fancy) variables to our example Makefiles. That can be a nice way to decouple the library source tree from application source trees, and since many people build their applications with a Makefile copied from o