[petsc-dev] petsc/master: unable to link in C++ with last night PETSC_WITH_EXTERNAL_LIB variable changes

[Matthew Knepley]

On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 9:56 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:

> Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > If we were in charge of all dependencies, that would be true. However,
> > packages can dump in things that need to link with. if we could
> > require that all dependencies be specified through our system, then we
> > could topologically sort and put out all the link libs. This is
> > exactly what we do for configure tests already.
>
> What's the problem with doing that now?  A node in the graph can
> correspond to more than one -l flag.
>

We could still repeat things that are common between nodes, but we could do
it
anyway.

  Matt

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