[petsc-dev] use --with-single-library=1 as default?

[Barry Smith]

   I vote to have one library -lpetsc and one include file petsc.h

    Barry

Only partially joking


On Feb 3, 2010, at 6:08 PM, Satish Balay wrote:

> Should we default to using --with-single-library=1? [I'd prefer this -
> as it will minimize dlopen issues from external packages.]
>
> Also - I'd like to have distinct library names between
> --with-single-library=0 and 1 - so that there is no ambiguity.
>
> i.e libpetsc.a for --with-single-library=1
> libpetscsys.a [instead of current libpetsc.a] for --with-single- 
> library=0
>
> With this change, the 'shared' targets don't have to be overloaded for
> libpetsc.so [for eg: for shared_darwin]
>
> Satish
>