[petsc-users] configure script for petsc

[Satish Balay]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Stephan Kramer wrote:

> Satish Balay wrote:
> > 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
> 
> True, except the makefile doesn't make it into a prefix-installed
> installation of petsc. Having my own makefile do it works fine -
>  was just checking if this is indeed the recommended way

Ah yes. There is no makefie that you can use in the prefix install. In
this case creating a temporary makefile is the way to go..

Satish