[petsc-dev] pkgconfig

[Jed Brown]

Bah, the problem with pkgconfig is that it doesn't handle different
versions in different places well. We should use it in most cases, however.
On Nov 1, 2012 2:41 PM, "Matthew Knepley" <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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>>   Does, should, PETSc generate appropriate pkgconfig information for
>> itself?  Does, can, it use that information from other packages?
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> pkgconfig is too fragile to be of any use.
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>    Matt
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>>     Barry
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> --
> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
> experiments lead.
> -- Norbert Wiener
>
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