Re: configure.ac and Dolfin.h

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 7:43 AM, c. <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 1 Mar 2014, at 04:51, Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I just committed a change to bootstrap and configure.ac such that it
>> accepts --with-dense-includedir
>
> Hey, aren't you the one who likes to go ranting around about obscure names?
>
> I'd rather use --with-eigen or --with-eigen3 as a name for the option.
>
> Dense is just one out of many headers in the Eigen3 package,
> users will install Eigen3 not just pick one header out of the distribution
> and place it somewhere.
>
>
>> to indicate special locations for
>> Eigen/Dense. Only then checks are performed. Please verify that it
>> works.
>
> But how do you pass these flags when doing "pkg install -forge" ?
>
> And how can they be informed that the option exists if they cannot run
> configure --help?
>
> c.

Carlo,

I found the error when including Eigen/Dense, therefore for me "dense"
wasn't an obscure name. I will change that, not an issue.

Be patient my friend. The old-new pkg (lol!) was designed to receive
this optional arguments but it was never implemented. We need to
revive that code...is out there and still working :D

Now all the handles are in place, one would need to think how to make
pkg return package specific help. Maybe
pkg -help pkg_name
(I think it already accepts this...gotta check again)