On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:09 AM, Thomas Hisch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:t.hisch@gmail.com" target="_blank">t.hisch@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:35 PM, Satish Balay <<a href="mailto:balay@mcs.anl.gov">balay@mcs.anl.gov</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, Thomas Hisch wrote:<br>
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>> Is there any benefit to the user if he enables boost support in petsc<br>
>> with the --with-boost configure option ? What is the difference<br>
>> between a petsc build with enabled boost support and a build without<br>
>> boost support? I can't find any information about this neither in the<br>
>> manual nor on the web.<br>
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> boost primarily required by 'sieve' part of PETSc [which requires a 'c++'<br>
> build]. But this functionality is being relaced by DMComplex [a 'c'<br>
> implementation]<br>
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Does this mean that if I don't need the sieve part then compiling with<br>
or without boost enabled does not make any difference for me ?<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Yes<div><br></div><div> Matt<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>
-- Norbert Wiener<br>
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