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Mark Olesen e9e9760329 CONFIG: bump versions of various third-party sources
* boost 1_62_0 (Sept 2016)

* CGAL 4.9 (Sept 2016)
  - now has headers-only mode that could be interesting

* FFTW 3.3.5 (Jul 2016)

* openmpi 1.10.4 (Sept 2016)
  - the first openmpi 2.x release is also available, but too early to switch

* paraview 5.2.0 (Nov 2016)
  - builds without additional patching

STYLE: removed unneeded CMake environment variables
2016-11-23 14:14:06 +01:00
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2016-02-10 20:49:04 +00:00

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