On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 14:24, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> The Satish way (which is always the correct way) is to do rm -rf > ${PETSC_ARCH} and then run ./configure again. Yes, but the run-time of this operation is 2^{1 + millions of dollars paid for machine} minutes so it clearly won't work at the exascale. You're going to be left in the past if you keep thinking like that. More seriously, rm -rf ${PETSC_ARCH} is horrible because you lose reconfigure-$PETSC_ARCH.py if you don't relocate it first. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20110830/b27639e3/attachment.html>