[petsc-dev] Making a PetSc Roll and Rocks Module

[Blaise A Bourdin]

I am attaching a very basic module file for reference. One would need to update petsc_dir and petsc_arch upon deploying these, or perhaps configure can do it.

I actually use this to easily switch between builds and debug / optimized versions

Blaise


 wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, Matthew Knepley wrote:
>
>>> We do support this install with DESTDIR. It might have rough edges -
>>> but its supporsed to work the same way any other package that supports
>>> it.
>>>
>>> One difference though is - since we also suppor the alternate
>>> orngaization [default] for inplace install with PETSC_ARCH - one has
>>> to use this PETSC_ARCH during the prefix build process aswell.  [but
>>> then PETSC_ARCH is nolonger used/needed after that]
>>>
>>> i.e
>>> configure
>>> --prefix=/opt/petsc/compiler/mpi/interconnect/petsc-version/arch1
>>> PETSC_ARCH=build1
>>> make PETSC_ARCH=build1 all
>>> make install PETSC_ARCH=build1 install DESTDIR=/tmp/dest1
>>> <package up from DESTDIR, and install as root:>
>>> Now user does:
>>> make PETSC_DIR=/opt/petsc/compiler/mpi/interconnect/petsc-version/arch1 ex1
>>>
>>> configure [different options]
>>> --prefix=/opt/petsc/compiler/mpi/interconnect/petsc-version/arch2
>>> PETSC_ARCH=build2
>>> make PETSC_ARCH=build2 all
>>> make install PETSC_ARCH=build2 install DESTDIR=/tmp/dest2
>>> <package up from DESTDIR, and install as root:>
>>> Now user does:
>>> make PETSC_DIR=/opt/petsc/compiler/mpi/interconnect/petsc-version/arch2 ex1
>>>
>>
>> Satish, would you mind putting this little blurb on the installation page
>> in the section about
>> using prefix? I could not find this anywhere in our documentation.
>
> pushed https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc-3.3/commits/74a42cc43dcfbd1850b7689385b6f1b5
> [and updated website with it]
>
> Satish
>

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