+ Optional Software Support
+
+ deal.II comes with built-in support for an
+ increasing number of external software packages. These packages are
+ sometimes detected automatically, sometimes they must be enabled explicitly
+ during configuration by adding the option --with-package.
+
+
+ These supported software packages comprise (the following list contains
+ trademarks belonging to their owners):
+
+
+
+ - TECPLOT
+ - Autodetected if one of the variables $TECHOME,
+ $TEC80HOME or $TEC90HOME points to a valid installation
+ of the tecio library. If enabled, allows data output in TECPLOT format.
+
+
+ - UMFPACK
+ - Enabled by --with-umfpack. Right now, only the included
+ version in the contrib directory is supported, but pre-installed versions
+ will be supported soon by using an argument to this option. Enabling
+ UMFPACK adds the class SparseDirectUMFPACK to the library.
+ Implies --with-blas
+
+
+ - Petsc
+
+
+ - Metis
+
+
+ - BLAS
+ - Enabled by --with-blas=blasname. Requires
+ libblasname.a/so in your linkers seach path. It will add the
+ library and required FORTRAN libraries to the linker calls. BLAS
+ subroutines are not used within deal.II.
+
+
+