[petsc-dev] make --with-shared-libraries default on most systems?

[Jed Brown]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> We had this on as default sometime back - and had plenty of
> petsc-maint due to it - hence we switched back.
>
> Part of the issue could be due to the way we handle
> externalpackages. Ideally each externalpackage should build its own
> sharedlibrary [relibaly].
>

Yes, but many of those build systems are not set up to do it, so we end up
building with -fPIC and linking them into libpetsc.so. FWIW, I use shared
libs on pretty much every system I use.
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