Installing libMesh into specified location #18054
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In the instructions for the hpc installation of moose (https://mooseframework.inl.gov/getting_started/installation/hpc_install_moose.html) there is mention of how to install PETSc to a specified location and then setting the PETSC_DIR variable. Is it possible to do the same for libMesh? Or is there some reason why you wouldn't want to or its not necessary? |
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This is possible. We track pretty closely with libMesh, so there is a danger of straying too far in version and having failures, but for development purposes you can build your own libmesh and set the |
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This is possible. We track pretty closely with libMesh, so there is a danger of straying too far in version and having failures, but for development purposes you can build your own libmesh and set the
LIBMESH_DIRenvironment variable to tell MOOSE where it's located. If you aren't doing active libmesh development, you should consider remaining with the submodule version supplied with MOOSE.