[petsc-dev] --with-shared-libraries=1 is a happy camper if it ends up using a static linker

[Satish Balay]

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Satish

On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, Barry Smith wrote:

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>    Hmm,  when someone explicitly sets --with-shared-libraries=1  I think they would be rather upset if configure ends up using ar and static libraries because it could not find options to build shared libraries.
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>     Yet that is what happens now!
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>    Could someone add support so that if a user specifically requests  --with-shared-libraries=1 configure barfs with a nice error message if it cannot find any? 
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>     I think it is a trivial code change but does require the snippet go in exactly the right place which I cannot determine 
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>    Thanks
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>     Barry
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