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

[Matthew Knepley]

On Thu, 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]
>

Are you pushing this or should i?


> BTW: Is the following notation ok? [google didn't help]
>
> prepend-path PATH /home/balay/spetsc/asterix64/bin:/home/balay/spetsc/bin
>
> I have some fixes [except for the modfile name] which I can push.
>

Cool, do it.

   Matt


> 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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