[petsc-dev] sizeof(PetscInt) from buildsystem

[Jed Brown]

Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> writes:
> 1) The python2 requirement is easily changed

Not so easily without compromising python2.4 compatibility.

> 2) You could compress it all into one line. I wanted to show what was
> happening.

Still complicated (many interfaces).

> 3) It much more flexible, namespaced, and does not involve output files
> which may change.

We can look back in 5 years and see which one works unmodified.  I
suspect that petscconf.h is more stable than all those Python
interfaces.
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