[petsc-users] configure script for petsc

[Satish Balay]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Stephan Kramer wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to write a portable configure script for our software that uses
> petsc, and needs to deal with petsc installations on a number of different
> platforms. In petsc 3.0 I could do
> 
>   make -f $(PETSC_DIR)/conf/base getlinklibs
> 
> and
> 
>   make -f $(PETSC_DIR)/conf/base getincludedirs
> 
> that would work for both "installed" petsc and petsc in its own build
> directory (provided PETSC_ARCH is set correctly of course). In petsc 3.1
> conf/base seems to have disappeared, is the best
> way to deal with this to make my own little makefile:
> 
> include ${PETSC_DIR}/conf/variables
> include ${PETSC_DIR}/conf/rules
> 
> and use "make -f my_own_little_makefile getlinklibs" instead?

Yes - this way - you can add more stuff into this makefile - if needed.

If you just do getlinklibs and getincludedirs - then you can probably
just do:

make -f $(PETSC_DIR)/makefile getincludedirs

etc..

Satish