script to query PETSc makefile variables?

[Matthew Knepley]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Boyana Norris <norris at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 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.

Technically,

  1) BuildSystem is a separate project. It has its own repository

  2) script is superfluous for getting the variables

   Matt

> 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
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> 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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