[petsc-dev] remnants of pkg-config in BuildSystem?

[Barry Smith]

On Nov 7, 2012, at 5:41 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>   Right, but since we are using MPI we live in the world where each compiler has a different ABI which pkg-config doesn't live in. That is why I say it is not a great model for us.
> 
> I've complained about pkg-config a lot, mostly because of this issue. I think it's still useful for us because it finds static library dependencies in a reliable way and avoids lots of failed links trying to probe these things.

   I have no objection to supporting it  as Matt had stared (even to trying generate one for PETSc) but with or without it is a pretty minor thing; it doesn't solve any hard problems. 

   Plus doesn't any HPC open source package generate a correct one for itself that we can use?

   Barry