Adding or removing source files

When adding or removing .h or .C files in libMesh, use the following procedure.

autotools

First, you must follow the instructions for setting up the libmesh-specific autotools.

Directories

If new components (i.e., new subdirectories) were added to the source/header directories, update the shell scripts that detect the new source/header files by editing $LIBMESH_SRC/include/rebuild_libmesh_HEADERS.sh to add the new header directory to the headers list of directories $LIBMESH_SRC/src/rebuild_libmesh_SOURCES.sh to add the new source directory to the sources list of directories.

Files

To update the list of source and header files, run these commands:

cd $LIBMESH_SRC
cd include && ./rebuild_include_HEADERS.sh
cd ..
cd src && ./rebuild_libmesh_SOURCES.sh
cd .. 
cd include/libmesh && ./rebuild_makefile.sh
cd -
git commit -am"Update Makefile.am files."
PATH=`pwd`/contrib/autotools/bin:$PATH ./bootstrap 
git commit -am"Run bootstrap."

Note that include/libmesh/rebuild_makefile.sh uses /bin/sh, which might produce undesirable artifacts on some systems (e.g., -n in place of newline characters). If that happens, you might notice a large diff in Makefile.am related to BUILT_SOURCES. In that case use

bash ./rebuild_makefile.sh

in the above.