On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Aron Ahmadia wrote: > declare -x PETSC_ARCH=petsc_linux_o3 > cd $PETSC_DIR > ./config/configure.py --COPTFLAGS=-O3 > make Or you could just do: ./config/configure.py PETSC_ARCH=petsc_linux_o3 COPTFLAGS=-O3 make Satish