[petsc-users] Some questions about the directory structure

[meator]

Thanks for your reply! It has clarified many things I was unsure about.

On 8/21/23 19:54, Satish Balay wrote:
>> What are the contents of the /usr/lib/petsc directory in destdir for? This
>> directory has two subrirectories: bin and conf. Why is the bin/ directory in
>> lib/? lib/ should be for libraries.
> 
> balay at p1 /home/balay
> $ find /usr/lib -name bin
> /usr/lib/debug/bin
> /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.372.b07-6.fc38.x86_64/jre/bin
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-17-openjdk-17.0.8.0.7-1.fc38.x86_64/bin
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-11.0.20.0.8-1.fc38.x86_64/bin
> balay at p1 /home/balay
> $ find /usr/lib64 -name bin
> /usr/lib64/qt5/bin
> /usr/lib64/R/bin

I see.

>> The /usr/lib/petsc/conf directory seems to be related to the build process. Is
>> that correct?
> 
> These have makefiles that can be included from user/application makefiles - to get compile/link working seamlessly.

Thanks for the feedback. I would have removed this directory otherwise.

>>
>> /usr/share/petsc looks like it contains additional info useful to the
>> developers, therefore it should be in a -devel subpackage.
> 
>>
>> I see that the docs directory contains .buildinfo. Does this directory contain
>> additional build artifacts (that should be removed)?
> 
> I guess some of these files should be excluded from tarball.

It might be just this file alone. But I'm not familiar with the 
documentation generator software you're using so I have asked just to be
sure.
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