NetBSD port

[Kevin.Buckley at ecs.vuw.ac.nz]

Jed Brown writes:

> > I thus thought I'd ask folk out there in the PETSc devel
> > community, if they have had any experience with the package
> > under the NetBSD pkgsrc system.
>
> I have used PETSc under FreeBSD, though I always built a private
> copy instead of the one from "ports".  I'm not familiar with the
> differences relative to pkgsrc.

OK, understood, not a big issue for us anyway. We are fortunate in
having a lot of pkgsrc expertise here within ECS (not me I hasten
to add!) so we'll just continue on. I was just looking to avoid
going through the same loops as someone else.


> In any case, we may be able to help if you explain what you would
> like PETSc's build system to produce.

We already have a software stack that gets the target package going,
and that was pretty bog-standard, albeit upon a Red Hat-OSed box, so
I am merely looking to replicate the stack upon our NetBSD platform.

It'll pretty much be thus be a case of: configure; make; make install
(but in a NetBSD/pkgsrc context - ha ,ha), so I was just touting for
any NetBSD/pkgsrc experiences.

I guess once the researchers here have a working system, they'll be
the ones driving improvements to the build, and/or indeed, the software.

Sure there'll be more to come though,
Kevin

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