configure options

[Boyana Norris]

Satish,

Thanks, this is sufficient for most cases (the only exception I can think of 
is when configure crashed or was interrupted before this file was created, 
which has happened to me a few times).

Boyana

Satish Balay wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Boyana Norris wrote:
> 
> 
>>This is a suggestion for a trivial addition to what goes in configure.log
>>(that is, if it's not already available elsewhere). One feature that I've
>>found very handy in the otherwise unpleasant use of gnu configure is the
>>ability to cut and paste the options given to configure from the config.log
>>(or .status) file, in the case when building multiple versions or slightly
>>differently configured builds. This doesn't seem to be available with PETSc's
>>configure, or at least not obviously so. If I take the array of options from
>>configure.log, I can't just paste it on the configure command line.
> 
> 
> Currently this functionality is available as
> bmake/${PETSC_ARCH}/configure.py.
> 
> It gets created when configure is run. It can be run again with
> additional options.  Changing/removing options would mean editing the
> python syntax.
> 
> Satish
> 


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