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Mark Olesen 4e48beffd4 ENH: support "one-shot" changes to the dictionary inputMode (issue #429)
- Instead of relying on #inputMode to effect a global change it is now
  possible (and recommended) to a temporary change in the inputMode
  for the following entry.

     #default   : provide default value if entry is not already defined
     #overwrite : silently remove a previously existing entry
     #warn      : warn about duplicate entries
     #error     : error if any duplicate entries occur
     #merge     : merge sub-dictionaries when possible (the default mode)

  This is generally less cumbersome than the switching the global
  inputMode. For example to provide a set of fallback values.

      #includeIfPresent "user-files"
      ...
      #default value uniform 10;

  vs.

      #includeIfPresent "user-files"
      #inputMode protect
      ...
      value uniform 10;
      #inputMode merge    // _Assuming_ we actually had this before

  These directives can also be used to suppress the normal dictionary
  merge semantics:

     #overwrite dict { entry val; ... }
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OpenFOAM Configuration

The main OpenFOAM settings are located in the parent etc/ directory. The bash and csh shells are supported and to configure OpenFOAM source etc/bashrc or etc/cshrc respectively which source the following files in the config.sh or config.csh respectively:

  • settings: core settings
  • aliases: aliases for interactive shells
  • unset: sourced to clear as many OpenFOAM environment settings as possible
  • mpi: MPI communications library settings
  • ensight: application settings for EnSight
  • paraview: application settings for ParaView
  • scotch: application settings for compiling against scotch
  • metis: application settings for compiling against metis 5

The config.*/example directories contains various example configuration files for the corresponding shell:

  • compiler: an example of fine tuning ThirdParty compiler settings
  • openmpi: an example of fine tuning openmpi settings for OpenFOAM
  • paraview: an example of chaining to the standard config/paraview with a different ParaView_VERSION
  • prefs: an example of supplying alternative site-defined settings