changes to PETSc-dev bmake system and library locations

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On 6/11/07, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> I should add that one motivation to support gnu/autoconf? 'make
> insall' model as closly as possible - is to make it easy for
> 'packagers' [deb,rpm etc..] to package PETSc

OK, this make sense... I'll try this when I have some free time, I've
been playing a bit generating rpm's for Fedora.


[atleast the default
> config - whatever that means] and make it available for their
> respective distributions. Currently we only have only debian/freebsd
> packages - and nothing more.
>
> And I'm hoping that these packagers have their own models for
> installing multiple configs [via different prefix], so potentially
> multiple variants of PETSc config can be packaged [if they chose to do
> it].
>
> However I think the requirement of 'PETSC_DIR' might still be a minor
> hurdle for this mode. [the alternative would be providing compiler
> wrappers but thats a different discussion]
>
> Satish
>
>


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