On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, abdul-rahman at tu-harburg.de wrote: > How do I best customize the compiler flags? Should I edit the > variables directly in petscconf, or can I do it with configure ? To compile with optimizationflags - you can use the following configure options: --with-debugging=0 COPTFLAGS=-O3 FOPTFLAGS=-O3 CXXOPTFLAGS=-O3 etc.. Satish