[petsc-dev] broken builds

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 15:25, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> How exactly would we keep track of that? Go and look to see what kind of
>> crazy shit was generated by the 'make install' in SuperLU?
>>
>
> Install it to a temporary directory and compute the manifest on that.
>
> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/su/superlu/PKGBUILD
>
> Most packages support DESTDIR which makes it simpler.
>

Which breaks things that bake in the install directory name. And some
packages have a workaround
and some don't, which is again a less than robust way to operate and I think
will create more headaches
than it solves.

   Matt

-- 
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments
is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments
lead.
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