[petsc-dev] --prefix install totally broken in next on Mac

[Jed Brown]

"Smith, Barry F." <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:

>> On Mar 21, 2018, at 7:41 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>> 
>>> On Thu, 22 Mar 2018, Satish Balay wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> make gnumake VERBOSE=1 does not show how the library is built, how does one see what exactly is being passed to build the library? Impossible for me to debug.
>>> 
>>> BTW: This is:
>>> 
>>> make V=1
>> 
>> Barry, see other thread about whether to use
>> 
>>  -install_name @rpath/libpetsc.so.3.08
>> 
>> versus the absolute path.  Using @rpath makes the library relocatable
>> without changing it (like on Linux), but requires either linking with
>> RPATH (-Wl,-rpath,/prefix/lib) or DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH (like on Linux).
>> What is your preference?
>
>     I prefer the absolute path.
>
>> 
>>>>> This was all fine in the past for prefix builds on the Mac all the recent messing around broke it.
>
>    Is there a branch that fixes the problem or has the problem just been commented on for a few days?

Should be fixed now in 'next' and 'jed/gmakefile-paths'.

>>> 
>>> BTW: The changes didn't affect saws. It has its own installer that needs fixing?
>> 
>> Yeah, pretty sure Saws issues are unrelated.
>
>    I'm not convinced.