Re: [Libmesh-users] Defining Quadrature Rule (like QGauss) to be used with FEBase

[John P. <jwp...@gm...>]

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 6:56 AM, Roy Stogner <roy...@ic...>
wrote:

>
> On Tue, 7 Nov 2017, Zack Vitoh wrote:
>
> I want to develop a nonstandard quadrature rule and use it as in
>> introduction_ex3.  Is there a way to do this simply,
>>
>
> Yes: after you add your new files (and the corresponding entry in
> quadrature_build.C), run a few scripts (as detailed in
> https://github.com/libMesh/libmesh/wiki/Adding-or-removing-source-files
> on the wiki) to put them into the build systems, and run "make" again.
>
> without rebuilding everything?
>>
>
> Probably not, I fear.  Putting new files into the build system will
> cause configure to re-run, configure will probably generate a new
> libmesh_config.h, pretty much every object file depends on
> libmesh_config.h, and so the entire tree will be rebuilt.
>

True, but it's not strictly necessary to add new quadrature code to the
library in order to test it out in an app.

Just put a class derived from libMesh::QBase in your application directory
and construct one manually i.e. don't call the static QBase::build() method
yet.

-- 
John