[petsc-dev] CFLAGS and COPTFLAGS

[Barry Smith]

On Jan 20, 2014, at 12:49 PM, Sean Farley <sean.michael.farley at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> jed at jedbrown.org writes:
> 
>> Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>>>     Where should we put the files that end up in conf? Should we
>>>     simply not install those? 
>> 
>> I don't think we should install logs.  If it were up to me, I would put
>> the makefiles in $prefix/share/petsc/, but I would install a script
>> petsc-config that can be used to dump the configuration as well as
>> provide configuration (a la pkg-config).  I think we should recommend
>> that users use this petsc-config script instead of including makefiles.
>> 
>> What do you think?
> 
> Jed's suggestions here would be great for package maintainers. As an
> added bonus, it'd be great if $prefix/share/petsc-$foo could be be
> configurable (so that multiple installations could be live
> side-by-side).

    This would allow multiple copies of the “share” stuff but if the library is in $prefix/lib/libpetsc.dylib  how can multiple installations exist side by side?

   Thanks,

     Barry