[petsc-dev] sizeof(PetscInt) from buildsystem

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:

> Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> writes:
> >> > 1) The python2 requirement is easily changed
> >>
> >> Not so easily without compromising python2.4 compatibility.
> >>
> >> > 2) You could compress it all into one line. I wanted to show what was
> >> > happening.
> >>
> >> Still complicated (many interfaces).
> >
> >
> > 2
>
> 2 would be
>
> import petsc.conf
> print(petsc.conf('64-bit-indices')


That is 1 interface

> I pray in 5 years our interface is not UNIX piping and grepping. We
> > have finally eliminated most of the horrible shell that was in our
> > makefiles. I hope we do not go backwards.
>
> Then make something better.
>

According to who?

  Matt

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