config/configure.py -> configure?

[Matthew Knepley]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
> On Jul 17, 2008, at 3:58 PM, Boyana Norris wrote:
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>> Speaking of configure and user experiences, I just noticed that PETSc
>> defines top_builddir (in petscconf), which conflicts with automake-generated
>> makefiles, making it impossible in some cases to include PETSc's petsconf
>> file into Makefile.am (as far as I know that's the only thing that causes
>> problems). I hate automake in general, but sometimes you are stuck with it
>> and it's very nice to be able to include PETSc make snippets even in
>> automake files and avoid a lot of pain.
>>
>> Anyway, since this is in a file that gets copied to the install location,
>> I think in general it would be best to avoid defining build tree-related
>> variables (especially those that conflict with auto-generated ones from
>> other tools). Thoughts?
>>
>
>   I think this was originally in there when Matt was mucking around with
> libtool (the gnu one, not the Mac one).
> I don't think it is used and should be removed. Once Matt confirms this, we
> will rip it out.

Yep, its  a relic. Rip it out.

  Matt

>   Barry
>
>> Boyana
>>
>> Satish Balay wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Satish Balay wrote:
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>>>
>>>>>  If we could support the same way that this is done with autoconf
>>>>> packages
>>>>> that would improve a users experience with PETSc.
>>>>>
>>>> I guess we don't prevent the usage from shell scripts. We just promote
>>>> the alternative usage of adding configure options in a python script.
>>>>
>>>
>>> And we generate $PETSC_ARCH/config/configure.py - which can be rerun
>>> by the user. Alternative would be to generate this file in a
>>> shell-script notation..
>>>
>>> Satish
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Boyana Norris, Computer Scientist    |   Email: norris at mcs.anl.gov
>> Argonne National Laboratory          |   Phone: +1 (630) 252 7908
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>>
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