Thank you both -- I'd prefer to use configVars.py, but it seems to depend on the script module, which is not standard in at least Python 2.5. Googling for "python script module" is a joke, as you can imagine. Is this a PETSc thing or a general module I can get somewhere?
Thanks! Boyana Matthew Knepley wrote: > Check out $PETSC_DIR/bin/configVars.py > > Matt > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > >> On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Boyana Norris wrote: >> >> >>> Is there a script that can be used to query the values of various variables >>> defined in petscvariables makefile snippets (similar to lots of linux tools' >>> pkg-config scripts)? >>> >> [don't have canned code for this but] I've previously recommended >> doing the following in the packages configure.. [facets now has this >> in their configure to detect petsc] >> >> >> - petsc_arch and petsc_dir are inputs to configure >> - Create a dummy makefile on the fly >> - run this makefile to echo relavent stuff.. >> >> >> For eg: >> asterix:/home/balay/download-pine>cat configpetsc.sh >> #!/bin/sh >> >> PETSC_ARCH=asterix64 >> PETSC_DIR=/home/balay/spetsc >> >> cat <<EOF > petscmake >> PETSC_ARCH = ${PETSC_ARCH} >> PETSC_DIR = ${PETSC_DIR} >> include ${PETSC_DIR}/conf/base >> EOF >> >> PETSC_INC=`make -f petscmake getincludedirs` >> PETSC_LIB=`make -f petscmake getlinklibs` >> >> echo '**** PETSC_INC ***' >> echo ${PETSC_INC} >> echo '**** PETSC_LIB ***' >> echo ${PETSC_LIB} >> >> >> Satish >> >> > > > > -- Boyana Norris, Computer Scientist | Email: norris at mcs.anl.gov Argonne National Laboratory | Phone: +1 (630) 252 7908 http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~norris/ | Fax: +1 (630) 252 5986