[petsc-dev] BuildSystem optional requirements

[Matthew Knepley]

On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 18:01, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Make a dependency for BOTH and choose one during package configure. What
>> else would you do?
>
>
> I'm not sure I understand how you mean to implement this. Wouldn't it be a
> failure if you have a dependency that is not satisfied? Are there any
> examples of this, or can you just update MUMPS.py?
>

No. Does anyone fucking read the documentation, not to mention the code? I
will look at the code.

  Matt

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experiments lead.
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