John's recollection parallels mine. I have no problem using the approach where we can, provided we don't blow away the current capability for dealing with makefile-less petsc installations.
-Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: John Peterson <[email protected]> To: Roy Stogner <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Tue Apr 20 15:28:56 2010 Subject: Re: [Libmesh-devel] PETSc v3.1 doesn't cooperate libmesh 0.6.4 well 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Libmesh-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Libmesh-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-devel
