Satish Balay via petsc-dev <petsc-dev@mcs.anl.gov> writes: > Currently they are used by some of the doc generation targets in > lib/petsc/conf/rules [errors here are not easily visible]. > > Sure - it might be possible to remove these variables and fix these targets > [to use *.c *.F etc.. or something else]
Now that the legacy (non-GNU) makefiles don't need to be maintained, I would support maintenance to get those lists out of makefiles. We could probably get rid of LOCDIR and DIRS as well (with modest effort).
