On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Lisandro Dalcin wrote: > On 6/11/07, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> > There is nothing sepcial about having all installs inside a single > > PETSC_DIR. in the prefix model - the user specifies prefix just > > like any other package. For eg: > > > > --prefix=/usr/local --download-mpich > > > > This should install both the packages [PETSc & MPI] in > > /usr/local/[bin,include,lib] > > > > I see the benefits now, I will try to update my build system for > petsc4py and see what happens... > > Can you please tell me what would be now the correct way to > differentiate a 'build' mode and an 'install' mode? Just using > directory structure? If its based on PETSC_ARCH/PETSC_DIR from makefiles, things should still work - [as PETSC_ARCH will be ignored by makefiles in the prefix-install version] Not sure what can be done or other 'automatic' detection systems. Perhaps Barry has ideas on this. Satish
