[petsc-dev] CFLAGS and COPTFLAGS

[Barry Smith]

On Jan 22, 2014, at 1:24 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:

> Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
> 
>>  When we first tried to follow “community standards” with —prefix I
>>  was told that “community standards” did not recognize the need for
>>  multiple installs and that community standards did not allow for
>>  putting archs onto names to allow multiple installs.  We
>>  specifically removed the concept of PETSC_ARCH for installs for this
>>  reason. Have community standards changed?
> 
> There is a big difference between having the install variant in the path

   I have no idea what the sentence fragment above is suppose to mean. 

> (user has to manage paths themselves) and versioning libraries installed
> to the same path.  We can continue with using the prefix for everything
> (which some distros will work around to avoid offloading path management
> to the user) or we can allow multiple installs to a standard path (users
> don't have to deal with paths, instead run petsc-3.5.0-dbg-config).

   I am not fundamentally objecting to name spacing the things installed but I previously understood that this was considered a big no-no.

   Barry