So if I pass --with-mpi-shared into MPI.py it TESTS if the MPI libraries are shared. Fine. But if it is download-mpich IT DOES NOT try to make shared libraries for MPICH. It only tries to make shared libraries for MPI if --with-shared is passed. WTF?
So I change it so that it tries to make mpi shared libraries if -- with-mpi-shared is passed but not also --with-shared. What happens? "Configuring with shared libraries - but the system/compilers do not support this." How the hell does it know the system/compilers do not support this? So I have to change the code to not reject the --with- mpi-shared when using static libraries. Sometimes I just want to delete the whole stinking repository of crud piled on crap piled on crud. Maybe we need to start having code reviews instead of shoving random code into random files and hope that sometimes things might work. Ok, well I shoved some random code in and got it to behave reasonably for me, until tomorrow, Barry This problem caused my early problem, since it ignored the --with-mpi- shared option it did not think it needed to rebuild mpich.