make install
</pre>
These steps compile, link and install the deal.II libraries. The
- whole process should take between a few minutes and an hour.<br />
+ whole process should take between a few minutes and an hour.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
<b>Note:</b>
<ul>
<li> <code>/path/install/dir</code> is the directory where you want to
<p>
<acronym>deal.II</acronym> has a large number of optional interfaces to
- other libraries. By default, <code>cmake</code> will enable interfaces
- to all external libraries it can find in default paths, but this
- behavior can all be selected using command line switches to the initial
- call to <code>cmake</code>. A detailed description of how this
- all works can be found <a href="cmake.html">here</a>. In the
- following, let us summarize the most common configuration options.
+ other libraries. By default, <code>cmake</code> will enable support
+ for all external libraries it can find in default paths.
+ However, this behavior can be changed using command line switches to
+ the initial call to <code>cmake</code>. A detailed description
+ can be found <a href="cmake.html">here</a>.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ In the following, let us summarize the most common configuration
+ options.
</p>
<a name="optional">
<li>
<p>
<i>Threading</i>: By default, deal.II supports parallelism between
- multiple cores on the same machine using both threads and a
+ multiple cores on the same machine using threads and a
task-based model built on the
- <a href="http://threadingbuildingblocks.org/"
+ <a href="http://threadingbuildingblocks.org/"
target="_top">Threading Building Blocks</a>. You can switch
threading off by passing the <code>-DDEAL_II_WITH_THREADS=OFF</code>
argument to <code>cmake</code>.
<p>
When configuring interfacing to external libraries,
- the <code>cmake</code> script by default tries to find any of these
+ the <code>cmake</code> script by default tries to find all of these
libraries in a number of standard locations on your file system. For
<i>optional</i> interfaces, it gives up if they are not there and
<acronym>deal.II</acronym> will be built without them. However, there