[petsc-dev] [petsc-maint #67637] Re: [petsc-users] Scalability of AO ?

Satish Balay petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov
Mon Mar 21 17:36:26 CDT 2011


Hm - why did I think Dmitry added libcharacteristic.a? I can't
figureout who added this library - so

Matt, Barry - Should it go into libpetscdm.a?

Satish

On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Satish Balay wrote:

> Dmitry,
> 
> We can't have a library disappear between real/complex builds. Is
> there a different library that can take in these symbols?
> 
> Note: not all petsc objects get a library of their own. For eg: IS
> goes into libpetscvec etc..
> 
> Satish
> 
> 
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Jose E. Roman wrote:
> 
> > src/characteristic/makefile has #requiresscalar real, so libcharacteristic.a is not created with-scalar-type=complex.
> > 'make test' fails in this case.
> > 
> > Also, with cmake builds:
> > Scanning dependencies of target petsccharacteristic
> > make[2]: *** No rule to make target `CMakeFiles/petsccharacteristic.dir/build'.  Stop.
> > make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/petsccharacteristic.dir/all] Error 2
> > make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> > 
> > Jose
> > 
> > 
> > El 21/03/2011, a las 22:20, Satish Balay escribió:
> > 
> > > added
> > > 
> > > satish
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Barry Smith wrote:
> > > 
> > >> 
> > >>   Maybe we just need to force Satish to have a nightly build that checks the several library tests.
> > >> 
> > >>   Barry
> > >> 
> > >> On Mar 21, 2011, at 4:10 PM, Jed Brown wrote:
> > >> 
> > >>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 22:07, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> > >>> Why do you care if there are dependencies? Admittedly that may make PETSc harder to develop and maintain
> > >>> 
> > >>> Exactly.
> > >>> 
> > >>> but from the user point of view what is wrong with just having one big-assed blob?
> > >>> 
> > >>> It doesn't matter for users.
> > >>> 
> > >>> (But a circular dependency would make executables grow so its existence might matter to someone using only Mat+Vec in an extremely low-memory environment.)
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 


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