Request related to SLEPc

[Jose E. Roman]

SLEPc's configure.py uses the value of $PETSC_ARCH in order to setup  
everything for installation. We never had a $SLEPC_ARCH variable  
because our configure.py does not add platform-dependent functionality.

Now the problem comes when PETSc has been configured with --prefix and  
installed with make install. In that case, $PETSC_ARCH is no longer  
available and SLEPc's configure.py is in trouble.

A simple workaround would be that PETSc's configure (or make install)  
would add a variable (e.g. PETSC_ARCH_NAME) in file petscvariables. We  
parse this file so the arch name would be readily available even if  
$PETSC_ARCH is undefined.

Can someone do this? Other solutions are welcome.

Thanks,
Jose