Why did you removed PETSC_ARCH_NAME variable in makefiles?

[Jose E. Roman]

On 25/11/2009, Barry Smith wrote:

> Why does SLEPc's configure.py need to know PETSC_ARCH? PETSC_ARCH is  
> a just a string that the user made up; in the --prefix case it means  
> nothing at all and has no information associated with it.
>
> If you are installing a SLEPC based on a --prefix install of PETSc,  
> you can just make up any PETSC_ARCH and use it doing your ./ 
> configure and make. If you are also doing a --prefix for SLEPC  
> (which is likely when PETSc was done with --prefix) then once you  
> have done make install the need for that PETSC_ARCH is gone. If you  
> are not doing a --prefix for SLEPc then that PETSC_ARCH is what the  
> user will need to use when they use the SLEPc. Does this not work  
> for some reason?
>
>
>  Barry

We fixed slepc-dev so that PETSC_ARCH_NAME is not required anymore.

Jose