[aspect-devel] Switching Aspect to cmake

[Thomas Geenen]

this could happen when you have a left over CMakeCache.txt file in the
source dir
they call it a feature......

http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ#I_run_an_out-of-source_build_but_CMake_generates_in-source_anyway._Why.3F

cheers
Thomas



On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Wolfgang Bangerth
<bangerth at math.tamu.edu>wrote:

>
> OK, I take this as a vote for cmake. Anyone opposed?
>
> Matthias -- using the current aspect CMakeLists.txt, whenever I create a
> different directory and do something like
>   cmake -DDEAL_II_DIR=... ../aspect
> it ends up saying
>
> -- Autopilot invoked
> -- Run   $ make help   to print a detailed help message
> -- Configuring done
> -- Generating done
> -- Build files have been written to: /home/bangerth/p/deal.II/2/**
> projects/aspect
>
> ...which is my source directory, not the current build dir. The newly
> created build dir remains empty. What do I need to do to enable
> out-of-source builds?
>
> Best
>  W.
>
>
>
>
> On 08/11/2013 04:48 AM, Thomas Geenen wrote:
>
>> with cmake you can always build out of source if you want by creating
>> your own
>> dir and running cmake from there. i usually have a few different builds
>> around
>> (different compilers and/or mpi flavors, instrumented with scalasca etc)
>> with cmake i will be able to do that more efficiently compared with the
>> current make based setup.
>>
>> cheers
>> Thomas
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Wolfgang Bangerth <
>> bangerth at math.tamu.edu
>> <mailto:bangerth at math.tamu.edu**>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     All,
>>     now that we've switched deal.II to cmake, I'd like to do the same with
>>     Aspect. There is already a CMakeLists.txt in the project and it
>> produces a
>>     file ./aspect if you run it in-source (which I, in fact, like a lot
>> better
>>     than hiding it in lib/).
>>
>>     Would there be reasons to run cmake out-of-source? Does anyone see a
>>     reason to have multiple Aspect installations from the same source
>> tree? If
>>     not, I'd propose we just nuke the existing Makefile and the lib/
>>     directory, and update the manual.
>>
>>     Thoughts?
>>
>>     Cheers
>>       W.
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