[petsc-dev] configure: generating guesses from liblist and includes

[Jed Brown]

Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> writes:

> I think the assumption that it is a tangent is incorrect. That is not how we
> install packages. We install everything at once, and if installed correctly,
> both tests should pass. If not, its not usable, and we look for another
> installation. This is exactly what we are doing.

But it was the _include_ that failed and all the "other installations"
are just different _libs_.  It really was a tangent this time.

I often think that failing fast and in a simple-to-understand way is
more important than trying as hard as possible to figure something out.