[petsc-dev] Mat/DM dependency

[Barry Smith]

On Jan 1, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Jed Brown wrote:

> Mat does not normally depend on DM, but a couple implementations do,
>
>  $ grep -rl DAGet petsc/src/mat/impls
>  petsc/src/mat/impls/hypre/mhyp.c
>  petsc/src/mat/impls/adic/nladic.c
>  petsc/src/mat/impls/adic/matadic.c
>
> So when these are enabled, all the Mat examples fail to link because
> PETSC_MAT_LIB does not include PETSC_DM_LIB.

    Please explain in detail when this occurs. It does not happen to  
me on the Apple with static, shared or dynamic libraries. Does it  
happen when linking the example or running it? Please cut and past all  
error messages that appear.

    Barry

   Let's not get carried away with redesigning all of PETSc because of  
a simple link issue (or crappy shared library design on Linux :-).


> This is especially
> annoying to me because the PETSc builds I use have Hypre enabled,
> meaning that I need to keep more special testing builds (without  
> Hypre)
> just to be able to run the Mat tests.
>
> Is the HYPREStruct stuff destined to eventually move out of Mat?
>
> Jed