[petsc-dev] Relocatable RPM for PETSc

[Matthew Knepley]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Chekuri S. Choudary <
cchoudary at rnet-tech.com> wrote:

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> 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
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> rpm –ivh  --prefix=$HOME/petsc****
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> export PETSC_DIR=$HOME/petsc ****
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> 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.
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> installation path upfront and make the RPM non relocatable.****
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> 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.
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No, we do not support relocatable binary packages. There are too many
things to do during the build.

   Matt


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