script to query PETSc makefile variables?

[Matthew Knepley]

Check out $PETSC_DIR/bin/configVars.py

  Matt

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Boyana Norris wrote:
>
>> Is there a script that can be used to query the values of various variables
>> defined in petscvariables makefile snippets (similar to lots of linux tools'
>> pkg-config scripts)?
>
>
> [don't have canned code for this but] I've previously recommended
> doing the following in the packages configure.. [facets now has this
> in their configure to detect petsc]
>
>
> - petsc_arch and petsc_dir are inputs to configure
> - Create a dummy makefile on the fly
> - run this makefile to echo relavent stuff..
>
>
> For eg:
> asterix:/home/balay/download-pine>cat configpetsc.sh
> #!/bin/sh
>
> PETSC_ARCH=asterix64
> PETSC_DIR=/home/balay/spetsc
>
> cat <<EOF > petscmake
> PETSC_ARCH = ${PETSC_ARCH}
> PETSC_DIR  = ${PETSC_DIR}
> include ${PETSC_DIR}/conf/base
> EOF
>
> PETSC_INC=`make -f petscmake getincludedirs`
> PETSC_LIB=`make -f petscmake getlinklibs`
>
> echo '**** PETSC_INC ***'
> echo ${PETSC_INC}
> echo '**** PETSC_LIB ***'
> echo ${PETSC_LIB}
>
>
> Satish
>



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