[petsc-dev] --known-mpi-shared-library and --with-batch annoyance

[Jed Brown]

Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>      We generate (or should if we don't) our shared PETSc libraries by 
>
>        sharedlink   petscsys.so  -lmpi
>
>        sharedlink   petscvec.so -lpetscsys 

If your shared libraries are set up correctly and there is a strict
policy about transitive linking (the correct thing), then this is not
okay because petscvec.so has direct calls to MPI.  If libmpi.a (built
with -fPIC) was inlined into petscsys.so, then it would "work" (but be
disgusting).
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