config-options

[Barry Smith]

On Feb 16, 2009, at 4:08 PM, Andreas Grassl wrote:

> Satish Balay schrieb:
>> On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Andreas Grassl wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I played around with some configure options and adapted the python
>>> scripts from $PETSC_DIR/config/examples, but I didn't find an  
>>> option to
>>> save the current standard options to such a script-file.
>>
>> Not sure I understand the question.
>>
>> When you run configure with any set of options - and the run is
>> successful - you get a $PETSC_ARCH/conf/reconfigure-$PETSC_ARCH.py
>> file - with all these options listed in it.
>
> Ok, I start from a script like this and wanted to have the default  
> options,
> which were not set explicitly to appear in a script as well.

    There are probably several hundred default options (of various  
types) and they grow
weekly. This is probably why we never thought of providing a way to  
have them all printed into the reconfigure-* file.

    Barry

>
>
>>
>>> Is there a possibility to get all the configure options?
>>
>> Hmm - you can run configure with '--help' option - and it will list
>> all the options configure accepts.
>
> do I have to parse them out manually?
>
> cheers
>
> ando
>
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