[Libmesh-devel] libMesh multi-method support

[Kirk, B. (JSC-EG311) <ben...@na...>]

All -

With r6480 I have merged back the libmesh.automake branch, with the new multi-method support.

If you build in your top-level directory, do a 'make distclean' before updating to make sure that any deprecated, derived makefiles are removed before the update orphans them.  If you build in subdirectories you might just blow away the existing contents.

The default is to build optimized, debug, and development versions of the libraries, but this can be controlled with the configuration flags

$ ./configure --with-methods="opt"

or equivalently

$ ./configure METHODS="opt"

We also now support

$ ./configure --disable-examples

which will speed up the build as well as the install, so if you are on a machine where you don't want to install the example tree you no longer have to.

-Ben