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2008-12-12 Thread Satish Balay
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Jose E. Roman wrote: SLEPc's configure.py uses the value of $PETSC_ARCH in order to setup everything for installation. We never had a $SLEPC_ARCH variable because our configure.py does not add platform-dependent functionality. Now the problem comes when PETSc has been

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2008-12-12 Thread Jose E. Roman
SLEPc's configure.py uses the value of $PETSC_ARCH in order to setup everything for installation. We never had a $SLEPC_ARCH variable because our configure.py does not add platform-dependent functionality. Now the problem comes when PETSc has been configured with --prefix and installed with

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2008-12-12 Thread Lisandro Dalcin
I would like to add that, despite the new buildsystem if by far better than the old one, PETSc has lost a nice feature of being able of being installed in a central location for multiple $PETSC_ARCH's . This feature is something I need, as I have to maintain the PETSc intallation in our cluster,

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2008-12-12 Thread Matthew Knepley
I need to understand what you use this variable for. If you are just linking, then you do not need it. If you want configure information, then you need it in order to get anything, so specifying in a file will not help. Matt On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Jose E. Roman jroman at dsic.upv.es

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2008-12-12 Thread Matthew Knepley
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Lisandro Dalcin dalcinl at gmail.com wrote: I would like to add that, despite the new buildsystem if by far better than the old one, PETSc has lost a nice feature of being able of being installed in a central location for multiple $PETSC_ARCH's . This feature

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2008-12-12 Thread Satish Balay
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Satish Balay wrote: A simple workaround would be that PETSc's configure (or make install) would add a variable (e.g. PETSC_ARCH_NAME) in file petscvariables. We parse this file so the arch name would be readily available even if $PETSC_ARCH is undefined. Currently

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2008-12-12 Thread Satish Balay
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Satish Balay wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Lisandro Dalcin wrote: I would like to add that, despite the new buildsystem if by far better than the old one, PETSc has lost a nice feature of being able of being installed in a central location for multiple $PETSC_ARCH's .

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2008-12-12 Thread Jose E. Roman
On 12/12/2008, Jose E. Roman wrote: SLEPc's configure.py uses the value of $PETSC_ARCH in order to setup everything for installation. We never had a $SLEPC_ARCH variable because our configure.py does not add platform-dependent functionality. Now the problem comes when PETSc has been

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2008-12-12 Thread Matthew Knepley
If PETSC_ARCH is not set, I would just use the default arch generated by configure, like we do in the PETSc configure. Matt On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Jose E. Roman jroman at dsic.upv.es wrote: On 12/12/2008, Jose E. Roman wrote: SLEPc's configure.py uses the value of $PETSC_ARCH