[petsc-dev] Relocatable RPM for PETSc

[Chekuri S. Choudary]

I am building an RPM for petsc-3.2-p5. I would like the users of the RPM to
be able to mention the PETSC_DIR at installation time, i.e, the RPM should
be relocatable.

For example, 

rpm -ivh  --prefix=$HOME/petsc

export PETSC_DIR=$HOME/petsc 

 

The issue is that while building the RPM, the "configure -prefix=$DIR"
builds the package assuming that $DIR is the final location of the files.
So, the only way seems to be to decide the

installation path upfront and make the RPM non relocatable.

 

Even with PETSC_DIR and PETSC_ARCH, it looks like the path is being
hardcoded, i.e, once PETSc is built, the files cannot be simply moved by
changing PETSC_DIR and PETSC_ARCH. I was wondering if there is workaround
for this issue or if I am missing anything. 

 

Thanks

Shiva

 

 

 

 

 

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