[petsc-dev] building PETSc plugins separately

[Jed Brown]

Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>> It's messier for static libraries because the user needs to link them
>> explicitly.  If we create a petsc-config program (similar to pkg-config,
>> but I think we need to execute our code), it could walk through the
>> designated plugin paths to construct a suitable link line that would
>> include all the plugins.
>
>    Yupe
>
>    Or if users used our makefile :-)

Using our makefile is not enough unless the makefile can use $(wildcard)
or $(shell) to become aware of the plugins once they have been
installed.
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