[petsc-users] Autoconf tests

[jeremy theler]

I once made a quick hack, maybe you can start your dirty work from here

https://bitbucket.org/wasora/wasora/src/5a88abbac1a846f2a6ed0b4e585f6f3c0fedf2e7/m4/petsc.m4?at=default&fileviewer=file-view-default

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jeremy

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 5:31 PM Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
>    You don't want to get the debug mode from PETSC_ARCH since there may
> not be a PETSC_ARCH (for PETSc --prefix installs) or because the user did
> not put the string in it.  You can check for the PETSC_USE_DEBUG symbol in
> the petscconf.h file by linking a C program against <petscsys.h> and #if
> defined(PETSC_USE_DEBUG).
>
>
>    Barry
>
> > On Oct 11, 2016, at 3:12 PM, CLAUS HELLMUTH WARNER HETZER <
> claus at olemiss.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Hi everybody-
> >
> > Figured I’d ask this here before I go reinventing the wheel.
> >
> > I’m writing an autoconf installer (the standard Linux configure/make
> package) for an acoustic wave propagation modeling package that builds
> PETSc and SLEPc as part of the installation process.  I’d like to be able
> to test for instances of PETSc already being installed on the user’s
> machine and, if possible, whether they’re the debug version.  I know I can
> check for the existence of the PETSC_DIR environmental variable, and parse
> the PETSC_ARCH variable for “debug”, and I’ll do that as a first pass, but
> has anybody written any M4 tests that are more reliable than those (i.e.
> actually attempting to link to the libraries)?  I had one user who had the
> libraries installed in /usr/local/bin but didn’t have the environmental
> variables set in their profile, so the linker was confused and it took a
> while to figure out what was going weird with the install.
> >
> > If not, I guess I’ll be putting on my Autoconf gloves and getting my
> hands dirty.
> >
> > Thanks
> > -Claus Hetzer
> >
> > ------------------
> > Claus Hetzer
> > Senior Research and Development Engineer
> > National Center for Physical Acoustics
> > The University of Mississippi
> > 145 Hill Drive
> > PO Box 1848
> > University, MS 38677
> > claus at olemiss.edu
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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