[petsc-users] Libraries destination directory is non-standard

[Satish Balay]

For one - I think each external package should be packaged separately
- and packagers should not rely on --download-package functionality.

Secondly - petsc/umfpack etc libs will get installed in
$PREFIX/lib/python2.7/site-packages/petsc/lib only if petsc is
configured with the option:

--prefix=$PREFIX/lib/python2.7/site-packages/petsc/lib

Perhaps there is an error here? You can check [or send us]
configure.log created by PETSc.

[presumably you are expecting --prefix=$PREFIX as the location to
install PETSc/umfpack.]

Satish

On Thu, 8 Jan 2015, Juan Luis Cano wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I am trying to build a conda package of PETSc 3.4 using its Python build
> system so anybody can install it in the Anaconda Python distribution. I need
> PETSc as a dependency for FEniCS.
> 
> The problem is that the required shared libraries (also those corresponding to
> external packages such as UMFPACK) are installed in
> $PREFIX/lib/python2.7/site-packages/petsc/lib. The build process goes
> perfectly fine but when packaging this into a tarball these libs won't be
> found by any package as they are not in $PREFIX/lib. Here is the build script
> I am using:
> 
> https://github.com/Juanlu001/conda-recipes/blob/juanlu001/fenics/petsc/build.sh
> 
> I tried to change the destination using `--prefix` in PETSC_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS
> and after `setup.py install`, but neither worked. Changing LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> seems dangerous to me and creating symbolic links three levels higher seems
> dirty. If the python version changes, or "lib64" is added somewhere, this will
> surely break... Does anybody have a suggestion on how to do this?
> 
> Thanks in advance, regards,
> 
> Juan Luis
>