Why did you removed PETSC_ARCH_NAME variable in makefiles?

[Barry Smith]

   I have made some changes so that when using the --prefix option  
there is no need to set PETSC_DIR or PETSC_ARCH.

./configure --prefix=...   other options
make
make install


    Barry

On Nov 27, 2009, at 5:47 PM, Satish Balay wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Barry Smith wrote:
>
>
>>   How does the gnu/autoconf world handle this. If you have two gnu/ 
>> autoconf
>> installed packages how can you tell they are compatible? You should  
>> use the
>> same type of mechanism they use.  (what?, they don't have such a  
>> mechanism?
>> Well then that is a limitation of the --prefix model and you have  
>> to live with
>> that).
>
> The issue is not what the prefix model dictates. The issue is: do
> slepc/petsc4py support both modes of install similar to PETSc. If not
> why does PETSc need PETSC_ARCH for a prefix install? [if we are so
> pure with supporting gnu/autoconf model?].
>
> Satish
>