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

[Lisandro Dalcín]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Sorry, I'm still confused. What does 'broken' means? Sorry about my
ignorance: In the case of a corrupted (whatever that could mean)
shared lib file, does the linker fall back to use a static lib?


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