[petsc-dev] Better package manager support in PETSc

[Barry Smith]

  Thanks. 

    The $PREFIX/include/makefile is just a hiccup from the installer and should never be installed. I have fixed next and master to not copy it. In fact there were a truckload of include/*/*/makefile that should never have been copied over,. FIXED

    Another bad copy of install stuff not mentioned is

    ls ~/petscinstall/include/finclude/ftn-auto/
       -tmpdir                  pcexotic-tmpdir  
      ao-tmpdir                pcgasm-tmpdir              petscthreadcomm-tmpdir 
      dm-tmpdir                pcmg-tmpdir      
      dmcomposite-tmpdir   ....    i.e. tons of work directories that should never have been copied over. FIXED

    
    The other complaint is $PREFIX/lib/modules/3.4.1  but in fact there are many other things that should be complained about as well.

    include/finclude    -nonname-spaced directory which includes two additional nonname-spaced sub-directories fnt-auto and fnt-custom  WHAT SHOULD THIS STUFF BE CALLED?

    all subdirectories of bin get copied over including unnamed spaced maint and julia plus lots of silly stuff gets installed that should not be installed.  I WILL FIX THIS
ls ~/petscinstall/bin/
FASTMathInstaller.py julia                mpiexec.sshsync      popup                uncrustify.cfg
TOPSGenerator.py     maint                mpiexec.uni          portabilitycheck.py  update.py
adiforfix.py         mapnames             parseargs.py         pstogif              urlget
              mpiexec.gmalloc      petsclogformat.py    pstoxbm              urlget.py
             mpiexec.lam          petscmpiexec         pythonscripts        win32fe
configVars.py        mpiexec.llrun        petscnagupgrade.py   saws
              mpiexec.poe          petscnagupgrade.pyc  taucc.py
             mpiexec.prun         petscrun             

  The famous conf directory gets copied over



> On Dec 30, 2014, at 4:00 PM, Aron Ahmadia <aron at ahmadia.net> wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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>    Tell us what we need to fix.
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> The issues were brought up in: http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/2013-October/013420.html

Hi All,

The PR has raised a few issues in what PETSc does when it performs a
prefix install.  In particular, PETSc generates the following files:

$PREFIX/include/makefile
$PREFIX/lib/modules/3.4.1

Neither of these have been properly namespaced.  I'd suggest changing these to:

$PREFIX/include/petsc/makefile
$PREFIX/lib/modules/petsc/3.4.1

I'm not sure about the latter, I really don't know how package
managers deal with local modules install, or if it's worth even
putting it in if the user is requesting a PREFIX install.

Another option would be to include the PETSc ARCH in the directory namespacing:

$PREFIX/include/petsc/linux-gnu/makefile
$PREFIX/lib/modules/petsc/linux-gnu/3.4.1

Thoughts?

-A

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> I don't know how you track these issues internally, but it didn't seem to be resolved when I looked at the mailing list.
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