[petsc-dev] still relevant in ./configure help ? Should Matt remove them?

[Matthew Knepley]

On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 10:19 PM, Smith, Barry F. <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov>
wrote:

>
>
> > On Dec 25, 2017, at 8:08 PM, Balay, Satish <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 25 Dec 2017, Smith, Barry F. wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> --with-autoreconf=<prog>
> >>       Specify autoreconf  current: autoreconf
> >>  --with-libtoolize=<prog>
> >>       Specify libtoolize  current: libtoolize
> >
> > Well I think configure uses autoreconf and libtoolize for packages
> > that it downloads via git - and then needs to build its
> > configure script. [for eg: MOAB]
> >
> > And if petsc configure needs these tools - it should provide a way for
> > user to specify them [i.e override configure default guesses]
>
>    Ah, ok.


This sounds to me like the reason we have Christmas trees. The old gods
must be appeased ;)

    Matt


> >
> > Satish
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> --with-alternatives=<bool>
> >>       Provide a choice among alternative package installations
> current: 0
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>


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