On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Satish Balay wrote: > > If we could support the same way that this is done with autoconf packages > > that would improve a users experience with PETSc. > > I guess we don't prevent the usage from shell scripts. We just promote > the alternative usage of adding configure options in a python script.
And we generate $PETSC_ARCH/config/configure.py - which can be rerun by the user. Alternative would be to generate this file in a shell-script notation.. Satish
