[petsc-dev] easyinstall for petsc4py

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On 5 August 2010 00:39, Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 August 2010 12:44, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>>
>>  Lisandro,
>>
>>    We would like to help you make it possible for petsc4py to be installed by easyinstall and automatically install PETSc with it, thus making it trivial for Python users to start using petsc4py. How can we help make this happen?
>>
>
> $ export PETSC_DIR=/path/to/petsc
> $ export PETSC_ARCH=arch-name
> $ easy_install petsc4py
>
> This should work and be enough (at least on Linux)...
>

I confirm this works out of the box (on Linux) for prefix installs and
non-prefix builds of petsc-3.1

All this assuming a previous installation/build of PETSc is available.
Barry, Do you actually mean that "easy_install petsc4py" should handle
the download and build of core PETSc?

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