#136: Don't rebuild external libraries so often --------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Reporter: eschnett | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: review Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: Cactus | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: --------------------------+-------------------------------------------------
Comment (by eschnett):
The advantage of a configuration option over an environment variable is that one can have two different install dirs e.g. on Kraken, e.g. if one wants to experiment with using the Intel vs. the PGI compiler. The respective libraries would be incompatible.
The idea behind declaring these options in a .ccl file is that, at one point, we may/should/could clean up the configuration mechanism to ensure that only intended variables are passed to the configuration scripts. For example, I found a system that had the R package installed, and had an environment variable RPATH set; RPATH is also a configuration option for (HDF?), which then breaks many things.
Again: what do others think?