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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>For example, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>rpm –ivh --prefix=$HOME/petsc<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>export PETSC_DIR=$HOME/petsc <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>installation path upfront and make the RPM non relocatable.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Shiva<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>