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

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On 21 April 2016 at 20:08, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
> PETSc used to have multiple shared libraries, and its still possible. If you
> link MPI statically into multiple shared libraries,
> you duplicate symbols like isInitialized. This messes up tons of things in
> MPI.
>
>>
>> 2) Is there any way to get rid of this flag or will there be cases were
>> configure goes through with success and accepts using shared libraries but
>> then the build fails with unable to make the PETSc shared library?
>
>
> If we allow --single-library=0, I do not see how we can avoid this.

Shouldn't MPI static be linked only in libpetscsys? That should work...


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