[petsc-dev] PTScotch 6

[Satish Balay]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Jed Brown wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Jose E. Roman <jroman at dsic.upv.es> wrote:
> 
> > I guess this is not so important to fix in 3.3.
> >
> 
> Yeah, we don't normally include include new feature-releases of external
> packages in maintenance releases. In that case, the branch can start at
> 'master'.

The maint patch refred to was further down - which is independent of the version change.

> -    self.cflags = self.cflags + '-DCOMMON_RANDOM_FIXED_SEED'
> +    self.cflags = self.cflags + ' -DCOMMON_RANDOM_FIXED_SEED'

Satish

> 
> 
> > They have separated the sequential and parallel versions. From file
> > INSTALL.txt:
> >
> >   Since version 6.0, the Scotch and PT-Scotch packages can be made
> >   independent. The libScotch will not be tied by any dependency against
> >   any MPI package, while the libPTScotch has to depend on the one with
> >   which it has been compiled, in addition to the libScotch package that
> >   it uses.
> >
> >   In versions 5.x, the libPTScotch also contained a modified copy of the
> >   libScotch. It is no longer the case, which will result in lower disk
> >   footprint.
> >
> 
> Okay, this is much more sane.
>