From bff7f57787b429ba8335436537fb8952709ee669 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bangerth Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:11:48 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add another note. git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/branches/branch_cmake@27514 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d --- deal.II/doc/readme.html | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/deal.II/doc/readme.html b/deal.II/doc/readme.html index e381fb88be..81ce53071e 100644 --- a/deal.II/doc/readme.html +++ b/deal.II/doc/readme.html @@ -217,7 +217,8 @@ make install These steps compile, link and install the deal.II libraries. The - whole process should take between a few minutes and an hour. + whole process should take between a few minutes and an hour, depending + on your machine.

@@ -239,6 +240,17 @@ sources and recompile things, then you can remove the build/ directory after the last step. +

  • In principle, after installing deal.II, you + can remove the source directory as well (i.e., the directory into + which tar unpacked the file you downloaded) since + projects using deal.II should only need files that have been + installed. However, you will find it convenient to keep the source + files around anyway, for two reasons: (i) When + debugging you often end up with assertions for which you'd like to + see the place in the library's source files that triggered it. (ii) + You may want to use the tutorial programs located in the source + directory. +
  • The deal.II CMake system can accept a significant number of configuration parameters. See the discussion below. -- 2.39.5