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Mark Olesen 7864672c78 ENH: make cwd() behaviour user-adjustable (issue #1007)
- with the 'cwd' optimization switch it is possible to select the
  preferred behaviour for the cwd() function.

  A value of 0 causes cwd() to return the physical directory,
  which is what getcwd() and `pwd -P` return.
  Until now, this was always the standard behaviour.

  With a value of 1, cwd() instead returns the logical directory,
  which what $PWD contains and `pwd -L` returns.
  If any of the sanity checks fail (eg, PWD points to something other
  than ".", etc), a warning is emitted and the physical cwd() is
  returned instead.

  Apart from the optical difference in the output, this additional
  control helps workaround file systems with whitespace or other
  characters in the directory that normally cause OpenFOAM to balk.
  Using a cleaner symlink elsewhere should skirt this issue.

  Eg,
      cd $HOME
      ln -s "/mounted volume/user/workdir"  workdir
      cd workdir
      # start working with OpenFOAM
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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