[petsc-maint #38919] Re: stupid, stupid, stupid MPI.py

[Matthew Knepley]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Lisandro Dalcín <dalcinl at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > If we are using shared libraries, and the MPI shared library was broken,
> the
> > configure failed. This option was added
> > to allow the user to turn off that check.
> >
>
> What does 'broken' means? How can the lib be broken for configure, but
> not for linking PETSc or user programs?
>

It would also be broken there too, and fall back to the static libraries.

  Matt


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