[petsc-users] query on meaning of libmpiuni.*

[Satish Balay]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Toby D. Young wrote:

> 
> One final question please:
> 
> > I understand that this library can be built as static or dynamic; right?
> 
> Then I look at my build, and only libmpiuni.a appears. Why is that? Can a
> libmpiuni.so exist? I build --with-shared=1.

Yes - is is the deficiency of the old build tools. libpetsc.so is
created by linking in all dependencies [and if libmpiuni.a is a
dependency - these symbols are added to libpetsc.so]

With petsc-dev both .a/.so versions of libmpiuni are merged into
-lpetsc [or -lpetcsys for --with-single-library=0]

Satish