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diff --git a/doc/UsersGuide.pdf b/doc/UsersGuide.pdf Binary files differindex e486d2ce..5095d057 100644 --- a/doc/UsersGuide.pdf +++ b/doc/UsersGuide.pdf diff --git a/doc/UsersGuide/Notes.tex b/doc/UsersGuide/Notes.tex index 4121184f..7cb14c7e 100644 --- a/doc/UsersGuide/Notes.tex +++ b/doc/UsersGuide/Notes.tex @@ -297,6 +297,14 @@ for and to preprocess Fortran code. \item [\texttt{PERL}] The name of the Perl executable. \end{Lentry} +\item {Output Directory} + +By default, Cactus generates intermediate and object files +underneath a directory named ``configs'' inside the Cactus +directory. This location may be changed through the use +of the \texttt{CACTUS\_CONFIGS\_DIR} environment variable. +See the section on File Layout~\ref{file_layout}. + \item {Compilation and tool flags} Flags which are passed to the compilers and the tools. @@ -787,9 +795,15 @@ preprocessor defines necessary for compiling multithreaded code. \section{File Layout} +\label{file_layout} The configuration process sets up various subdirectories and files in the -\texttt{configs} directory to contain the configuration specific files; these +configuration +directory (this is either a directory +\texttt{configs} insde the main Cactus directory, or the +directory pointed to by the \texttt{CACTUS\_CONFIGS\_DIR} environment +variable). +to contain the configuration specific files; these are placed in a directory with the name of the configuration. \begin{Lentry} |