[petsc-users] petsc 3.4:

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 15 May 2013, Matteo Parsani wrote:

> I mean if one is installing with --prefix, then PETSC_ARCH is not needed
> right?
> 
> Thus getting at screen this type of instructions
> 
> make PETSC_DIR=/scratch/home0/pmatteo/research/lib_src/petsc-3.3-
> p7 PETSC_ARCH=arch-linux2-c-debug install
> 
> can be maybe misleading (I am referring to PETSC_ARCH=arch-linux2-c-debug)

PETSC_ARCH is used for the build process - until 'make install' - but
not after that [i.e once petsc is installed - user codes don't use
PETSC_ARCH]. Hence the instructions printed are as such.

Satish