Re: [Patch] fem-fenics patches

[c.]

On 5 Mar 2014, at 11:12, Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden> wrote:

> This is not true. A user experiencing the issue can just go to the
> package an run configure with the option enable. This patch is useful
> as of now for any user experiencing the problem.

most users don't even see that the package is a tar file, 
they just install with "pkg install -forge".

A user who can go to the src directory and run configure manually
is also able to set CPPFLAGS manually, so while indeed a little bit more
convenient this feature is not tremendously 

> What is left for the
> future is allowing the user to pass the options with pkg, that is a
> completely different issue.

not completely different, being able to provide options directly to pkg 
will make the feature really accessible.

c.