suppressing some command line options?

[Satish Balay]

I'm attaching a patch that can be applied to petsc-2.3.2 for this to
work.

cd petsc-2.3.2-p3
patch -Np1 < opt.patch

Alternatively petsc-dev should have it
http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/developers/index.html

Let us know if this works.
Satish

On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Barry Smith wrote:

> 
>  Boyce,
> 
>    Satish is working on this right now. It is a problem that we 
> never properly resolved in that past and it needs to be solved.
> Unfortunately we won't be able to get it into the current petsc release,
> it will have to go in petsc-dev.
> 
>    Thanks for reminding us of this problem,
> 
>    Barry
> 
> 
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Boyce Griffith wrote:
> 
> > Hi, Folks --
> > 
> > I have an application in which, for better or for worse, I generate a huge
> > number of sequential sparse AIJ matrices.  I was wondering if it was possible
> > to suppress the command line options affiliated with those objects.  (I am
> > using MatCreateSeqAIJ, and I am not using MatSetFromOptions.)
> > 
> > The basic issue is that when a user runs the program with the '-help' flag,
> > the options associated with these matrices tend to overwhelm all of the other
> > command line options, e.g., KSP settings.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
> > 
> > -- Boyce Griffith
> > 
> > 
> 
>