new build system

[Barry Smith]

  What the hey are include files doing inside lib? What a crock.

   Barry

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Satish Balay wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
> 
> > I am using Fedora Core 6, I've installed ATLAS rpm, see the contents:
> 
> gcc, python are representative of packages that can have multiple
> version installed simultaneously.
> 
> /usr/bin/python2.4
> /usr/include/python2.4/Python.h
> /usr/lib/python2.4/os.py
> /usr/lib/python2.4/config/Makefile
> /usr/lib/python2.4/config/Setup
> 
> 
> /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.1/include/float.h
> /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/3.4.6/include/float.h
> 
> /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.1/libgcc.a
> /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/3.4.6/libgcc.a
> 
> etc..
> 
> One major difference they have [wrt PETSc] is the internals are not
> directly accessed by users. Only the binaries are.  So just having
> gcc, gcc34 as 2 binaries is sufficient to distinguish these 2 packages
> [and these wrappers know the internal paths to the correct version of
> libraries]
> 
> Satish
> 
>