[petsc-dev] broken builds

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 15:34, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Every package that has ever been packaged for a distro has been shoehorned
> into this model. There are ways to trick actively hostile packages. DESTDIR
> is available for most packages, especially those that hard-code the
> destination directory. This is a problem that so many other people have
> solved that it's foolish to say it's unworkable.
>

I did not say unworkable, I just said unmanageable. Distros have LOTS of
manpower compared to PETSc and often
employ strategies that cater to this strength. We can't. I do not consider
what has been done as "solutions".

   Matt

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