[petsc-dev] Fwd: [petsc-maint #149715] Making a PetSc Roll and Rocks Module

[Satish Balay]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2013, Barry Smith wrote:

> 
> On Feb 4, 2013, at 8:02 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 4 Feb 2013, Barry Smith wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > If PETSC_ARCH is not specified by user - configure creates one and
> > uses it. It looks ugly for prefix build - but then - making one build
> > better means compromising somewere else.
> > 
> > options:
> > 
> > - don't use PETSC_ARCH in the module file name [but then rely on users
> > to rename it when they copy it over to the appropriate location.
> > - don't use PETSC_ARCH in module name for only prefix installs.
> > But this becomes inconsistant.
> > - provide a configure option for users to specify a name for this modulefile.
> > [defalt always uses PETSC_ARCH]
> > - [others?]
> 
>    What about ${PETSC_VERSION}${PETSC_ARCH}?
> 
> The user has to rename/move the module files for prefix installs so maybe we don't need to give it any particular name, just petsc-module?
> 
> Yes it is ugly without the hyphen but at least without PETSC_ARCH it is consistent.
> 
> The concept of module file seems silly with PETSC_DIR/PETSC_ARCH installs, should we  even make them in that case?
> 
> 
> 
> BTW: Can you check what the PETSc module files look like at Nersc?

balay at hopper05:~> module avail petsc

---------------------------------------- /opt/cray/modulefiles -----------------------------------------
petsc/3.1.04                  petsc/3.3.00                  petsc-complex/3.2.02(default)
petsc/3.2.02(default)         petsc-complex/3.1.04          petsc-complex/3.3.00

------------------------------------------- /opt/modulefiles -------------------------------------------
petsc/3.1.04                  petsc/3.3.00                  petsc-complex/3.2.02(default)
petsc/3.2.02(default)         petsc-complex/3.1.04          petsc-complex/3.3.00

--------------------------------- /usr/common/acts/Modules/modulefiles ---------------------------------
petsc/3.1                 petsc/3.1_g               petsc/3.2_g_complex
petsc/3.1-opkgs_O         petsc/3.1_g_c++           petsc/3.3
petsc/3.1-opkgs_O_c++     petsc/3.1_g_complex       petsc/3.3_O
petsc/3.1-opkgs_O_complex petsc/3.2                 petsc/3.3_O_c++
petsc/3.1-opkgs_g         petsc/3.2_O               petsc/3.3_O_complex
petsc/3.1-opkgs_g_c++     petsc/3.2_O_c++           petsc/3.3_O_tau
petsc/3.1-opkgs_g_complex petsc/3.2_O_complex       petsc/3.3_g
petsc/3.1_O               petsc/3.2_O_tau           petsc/3.3_g_c++
petsc/3.1_O_c++           petsc/3.2_g               petsc/3.3_g_complex
petsc/3.1_O_complex       petsc/3.2_g_c++
balay at hopper05:~> 

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> 
> 
> > 
> > BTW: I'm not usre if 'lib' is the correct location to stash module/pkgconfig files.
> > Autoconf install might provide options like --prefix --module-prefix --pkgconfig-prefix?
> 
> Barrys-MacBook-Pro:petsc-dev barrysmith$ ls /usr/lib/pkgconfig/
> apr-1.pc         apr-util-1.pc    libcrypto.pc     libedit.pc       libiodbc.pc      libpcre.pc       libpcreposix.pc  libssl.pc        openssl.pc       
> Barrys-MacBook-Pro:petsc-dev barrysmith$ ls /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/
> PETSc.pc        libpcre.pc      libpcrecpp.pc   libpcreposix.pc libpng.pc       libpng15.pc     libtiff-4.pc    tesseract.pc    valgrind.pc
> 
> bsmith at login2:~$ ls /usr/lib/pkgconfig/
> apr-1.pc       dbus-python.pc  fontutil.pc  glew.pc		   ibus-table.pc       mpich2-c.pc    nautilus-sendto.pc  printproto.pc		  python2.pc	 sawfish.pc
> apr-util-1.pc  fftw3f.pc       fuse.pc	    gnome-system-tools.pc  libquvi-scripts.pc  mpich2-cxx.pc  netcdf.pc		  pygtksourceview-2.0.pc  python-dbg.pc  scrnsaverproto.pc
> cln.pc	       fftw3l.pc       ginac.pc     gsl.pc		   libR.pc	       mpich2-f77.pc  notify-python.pc	  python-2.7-dbg.pc	  python.pc	 valgrind.pc
> cppunit.pc     fftw3.pc        ginn.pc	    gts.pc		   mcabber.pc	       mpich2-f90.pc  pm-utils.pc	  python-2.7.pc		  rep-gtk.pc	 xorg-wacom.pc

My machine has it at '/usr/

asterix:/home/balay>ls /usr/share/pkgconfig
bash-completion.pc  glproto.pc              renderproto.pc       xextproto.pc
bigreqsproto.pc     gnome-icon-theme.pc     resourceproto.pc     xf86bigfontproto.pc
compositeproto.pc   gnome-keybindings.pc    scrnsaverproto.pc    xf86dgaproto.pc
damageproto.pc      gnome-video-effects.pc  shared-mime-info.pc  xf86driproto.pc
dmxproto.pc         gtk-doc.pc              spice-protocol.pc    xf86miscproto.pc
dri2proto.pc        inputproto.pc           systemd.pc           xf86vidmodeproto.pc
emacs.pc            kbproto.pc              udev.pc              xineramaproto.pc
evieproto.pc        libquvi-scripts.pc      usbutils.pc          xproto.pc
fixesproto.pc       randrproto.pc           videoproto.pc        xproxymngproto.pc
fontsproto.pc       recordproto.pc          xcmiscproto.pc
asterix:/home/balay>


Satish