On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Roy Stogner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 3 Apr 2010, Jed Brown wrote:
>
>> Note that an alternative to all the version checking is to snarf the
>> output of "make getlinklibs"
>
> We used to use this in our Make.common.in - looks like it was
> commented out in r2089.  The changelog doesn't say why we started
> trying to do things manually, except that whatever it was might have
> annoyed Ben enough to produce the freudian typo "pestc".  ;-)

I think not all PETSc installs (at the time) had a Makefile installed
with them, so we couldn't use make getlinklibs reliably everywhere.

-- 
John

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