[petsc-dev] DESTDIR

[Jed Brown]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:40:16 -0500, Dmitry Karpeev <karpeev at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> I would just add that petsc-config should, in my opinion, define
> compile and link commands (i.e., including the compiler and the linker),
> not merely the relevant flags (some of those are compiler-dependent).

Yes, the compiler needs to be available, but in the end, it's up to the
user whether to use the same compiler or try a different one.  To be
clear, I'm not alone in hating wrapper compilers and want nothing to do
with petscCC or something of that form.  But I think it is desirable for
users to have

  CC ?= `petsc-config --c-compiler`
  CFLAGS += `petsc-config --includes`
  LDFLAGS += `petsc-config --libs --shared --no-rpath`

readily available in whatever build system they like.

Jed