<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello All,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To build petsc from anywhere I always use “make libs”, but I recently discovered that this makes a $PETSC_ARCH/ folder in the current directory that includes tests/testfiles. Testfiles is completely empty, and doesn’t seem to do anything. I’ve been spamming this around my machine over the past few months, resulting in A LOT of these arch folders littered around the place.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m wondering if this is not a bug in the make recipe? Should it be ${PETSC_DIR}/${PETSC_ARCH}/tests/testfiles instead of <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">./${</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">PETSC_ARCH</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">}/tests/testfiles?</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">libs: ${PETSC_DIR}/${PETSC_ARCH}/lib/petsc/conf/files ./${PETSC_ARCH}/tests/testfiles <-------------------------------<br class=""> +@cd ${PETSC_DIR} && MAKEFLAGS="-j$(MAKE_NP) -l$(MAKE_LOAD) $(MAKEFLAGS)" ${OMAKE_PRINTDIR} -f gmakefile ${MAKE_PAR_OUT_FLG} V=${V} libs</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>Best regards,<br class=""><br class="">Jacob Faibussowitsch<br class="">(Jacob Fai - booss - oh - vitch)<br class="">Cell: (312) 694-3391</div></div>
</div>
<br class=""></div></body></html>