[petsc-dev] use --with-single-library=1 as default?

Satish Balay balay at mcs.anl.gov
Thu Feb 4 12:31:43 CST 2010


For now - I'm pusing the 2 changes I proposed.

Satish

On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Barry Smith wrote:

> 
>  I vote to have one library -lpetsc and one include file petsc.h
> 
>   Barry
> 
> Only partially joking
> 
> 
> On Feb 3, 2010, at 6:08 PM, Satish Balay wrote:
> 
> > Should we default to using --with-single-library=1? [I'd prefer this -
> > as it will minimize dlopen issues from external packages.]
> > 
> > Also - I'd like to have distinct library names between
> > --with-single-library=0 and 1 - so that there is no ambiguity.
> > 
> > i.e libpetsc.a for --with-single-library=1
> > libpetscsys.a [instead of current libpetsc.a] for --with-single-library=0
> > 
> > With this change, the 'shared' targets don't have to be overloaded for
> > libpetsc.so [for eg: for shared_darwin]
> > 
> > Satish
> > 
> 




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