From: David Wells Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 22:53:05 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Add notes on packaging for distributions. X-Git-Tag: v9.2.0-rc1~1359^2~1 X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d1e8ebab964dec90c14f66e58b9452bb46e4ef43;p=dealii.git Add notes on packaging for distributions. --- diff --git a/doc/developers/packaging.html b/doc/developers/packaging.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3cca7fa3a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/developers/packaging.html @@ -0,0 +1,102 @@ + + + + Packaging deal.II + + + + + + + +

Packaging deal.II for a Unix-like distribution

+ +

Overview

+ This page describes how to write packaging scripts + for deal.II. deal.II is written in + C++11 and is known to work with fairly recent GCC, Clang, and Intel + compilers. It is licensed under the LGPL v2.1. We recommend reading + the porting document first for + a description of the requirements of the build + system. deal.II does not support any type of plug-in + architecture for dependencies: all dependencies must be provided at + compile-time. + + The only required dependency of deal.II is boost. +

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Examples

+ deal.II is already available in many Linux distributions: + for example packaging scripts see, e.g., +

+ + a packaging script for the Arch Linux AUR, +
+ + a packaging script for the Gentoo science overlay, and +
+ + a packaging setup for Debian stable. +

+ +

Suggestions

+ deal.II defaults to installing several + configuration files + (LICENSE.md, README.md, detailed.log, + and summary.log) in the installation prefix. We recommend + deleting these files. LICENSE.md should be installed in the + correct directory for software licenses. +
+ By default, all examples are compiled in both debug and release mode and + installed in the bin subdirectory of the installation + prefix. We recommend disabling the examples by configuring with + the -DDEAL_II_COMPILE_EXAMPLES=OFF option. +
+ The CMake configuration of deal.II will determine + what compiler is being used and pick reasonable optimization and + debugging flags automatically. Further flags for debug and release mode + may be supplied by DEAL_II_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG + and DEAL_II_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE variables passed to CMake, + respectively. +
+ The flag DEAL_II_ALLOW_PLATFORM_INTROSPECTION (disabled by + default) enables (as the name implies) CPU-specific issues (usually for + vectorization). +
+ The flag DEAL_II_WITH_64BIT_INDICES changes an integral type + used for indices in the library. This value should be made consistent + with the way PETSc is configured. +
+ deal.II includes copies of boost, muParser, TBB, and + UMFPACK. These bundled packages should be disabled + via -DDEAL_II_ALLOW_BUNDLED=OFF. +

+ + Underlinkage with GSL may cause problems, depending on how GSL is set up. + +

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