Barry Smith <bsm...@mcs.anl.gov> writes: > When we first tried to follow “community standards” with —prefix I > was told that “community standards” did not recognize the need for > multiple installs and that community standards did not allow for > putting archs onto names to allow multiple installs. We > specifically removed the concept of PETSC_ARCH for installs for this > reason. Have community standards changed?
There is a big difference between having the install variant in the path (user has to manage paths themselves) and versioning libraries installed to the same path. We can continue with using the prefix for everything (which some distros will work around to avoid offloading path management to the user) or we can allow multiple installs to a standard path (users don't have to deal with paths, instead run petsc-3.5.0-dbg-config).
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