[petsc-dev] Why do we pass -L/usr/lib ?

[Barry Smith]

> On Nov 6, 2014, at 4:35 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> @@ -220,7 +220,8 @@ class Package(config.base.Configure):
>>   externalPackagesDir = property(getExternalPackagesDir, setExternalPackagesDir, doc = 'The directory for downloaded packages')
>> 
>>   def getSearchDirectories(self):
>>   -    '''By default, do not search any particular directories'''
>>   +    '''By default, do not search any particular directories - but do check default compiler location'''
>>   +    yield ''
>>        return []
> 
> Or return [''].  I think we should do this.

  Try it.