script to query PETSc makefile variables?

[Boyana Norris]

Ah, ok, that explains it -- it's not in the installed version (the one 
after make install). Should it be? I really would like to avoid 
depending on the PETSc source directories.

Boyana

Matthew Knepley wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Boyana Norris <norris at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>   
>> Thank you both -- I'd prefer to use configVars.py, but it seems to depend on
>> the script module, which is not standard in at least Python 2.5. Googling
>> for "python script module" is a joke, as you can imagine. Is this a PETSc
>> thing or a general module I can get somewhere?
>>     
>
> That module is in PETSc,
>
>   $PETSC_DIR/config/BuildSystem
>
>     Matt
>
>   
>> Thanks!
>> Boyana
>>
>> Matthew Knepley wrote:
>>     
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> --
>> Boyana Norris, Computer Scientist    |   Email: norris at mcs.anl.gov
>> Argonne National Laboratory          |   Phone: +1 (630) 252 7908
>> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~norris/      |   Fax:   +1 (630) 252 5986
>>
>>     
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>
>   

-- 
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