[petsc-dev] ugliness due to missing lapack routines

[Matthew Knepley]

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 5)
>>> #define KSPGMRES "gmres"
>>>
>>> ?
>>>
>>
>> We had this argument. The typedef behaves in a weird was with 'const'.
>>
>
> Huh? We already have typedef const char *KSPType. It's easy to replace
> these with constant data (extern KSPType KSPGMRES), but that's harder to
> read and we still have to define it for Fortran as well.
>

Brain melt down. I am only half looking now.


>
>>
>>> 6)
>>> #if defined(PETSC_HAVE_SOMEINCLUDE)
>>> #include <someinclude.h>
>>>
>>>    I was thinking we could auto generate empty someinclude.h for these
>>> (putting in $PETSC_ARCH/include) Cheesy but ?
>>>
>>
>> Hmm, that seems fragile. I would rather generate the header lists.
>>
>
> Where is the programmer going to state which headers they need in a
> specific source file?
>

Hmm, it seems like the easiest thing to do is delete them if they don't
exist.

   Matt

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