[petsc-users] best way to have debug/without-debug builds side by side in petsc-dev

[Jed Brown]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Geoffrey Irving <irving at naml.us> wrote:

> What's the standard way of having debug and non-debug builds side by
> side in an instance of petsc-dev?  If I do
>
>     ./configure --with-shared-libraries=1
> --PETSC_DIR=/Users/irving/otherlab/petsc --download-ml=yes
> --with-mpi-dir=/usr/local --with-debugging=0
>
> it defaults to PETSC_ARCH=darwin10.6.0-cxx-debug, which is the same
> PETSC_ARCH as for --with-debugging=1.  I can manually change
> PETSC_ARCH, but it seems odd to have to do this.
>

I've always chosen my own PETSC_ARCHes (I have almost 50 of them at
present). I normally do

 ./configure PETSC_ARCH=foo --whatever-options

foo/conf/reconfigure-foo.py PETSC_ARCH=foo-opt --with-debugging=0
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