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

[Blaise A Bourdin]

On Jan 24, 2013, at 6:37 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov>
 wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Jan 2013, Blaise A Bourdin wrote:
> 
>> the usual naming scheme is just the version number, but for petsc, most supercomputing centers use %version-%arch
>> the installer will copy the file into $MODULEPATH/petsc/%version-%arch, or the user to $HOME/.modulefiles
>> 
>> Of course,  %version-%arch is a really silly name out of context. How about petsc-%version-%arch, somewhere within $PETSC_DIR/$PETSC_ARCH, or $PETSC_DIR/$PETSC_ARCH/modulefiles/%version-%arch ?
> 
> And PETSC_ARCH has no singificance with prefix install [the
> significant text is in the prefix-path - and one doesn't have to match
> PETSC_ARCH to this significant text]

True. I actually realized that as I was hitting send

> BTW: Is the following notation ok? [google didn't help]
> 
> prepend-path PATH /home/balay/spetsc/asterix64/bin:/home/balay/spetsc/bin

It seems to work, but 
prepend-path PATH /home/balay/spetsc/asterix64/bin
prepend-path PATH /home/balay/spetsc/bin
may be safer. 
Both will break under windows, but I don't think it is a problem, really

Blaise




> 
> I have some fixes [except for the modfile name] which I can push.
> 
> thanks,
> Satish
> 
>> 
>> Blaise
>> 
>> 
>> On Jan 24, 2013, at 6:19 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, Matthew Knepley wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Blaise A Bourdin <bourdin at lsu.edu> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 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
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Pushed something that writes your simple module file to
>>>> lib/modules/PETSc.mod. It would now be good to get feedback
>>>> to make this the right thing.
>>> 
>>> The name conflists with f90 modules. Perhaps there is a different
>>> notation for software modules?
>>> 
>>> Also for prefix install we should set PETSC_ARCH=""
>>> 
>>> And for inplace install - do we also add PETSC_DIR/bin to PATH?
>>> 
>>> Satish
>>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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