There are other issues with using prefix installs of PETSc.  It turns out that 
there are links back to the source directory where you build PETSc for any 
external libraries you use.  At least this is the case with the newest version 
of PETSc 2.X.  You will see this if you delete the source directories after 
installing PETSc in the prefix path.  While this really doesn't have anything 
to do with whether or not the existing m4 script is correct, I just wanted to 
caution anyone doing prefix installs to be aware of that issue.

Cody

On Nov 9, 2010, at 3:24 PM, Erik Zeek wrote:

> When PETSc is installed into a prefix directory it no longer has a directory 
> component for $PETSC_ARCH.  The test for PETSc MPI support didn't allow for 
> this case.  The attached patch allows for this, but doesn't allow $PETSC_ARCH 
> to be unset.
> 
> Erik
> 
> P.S.  The other workaround I found was to set PETSC_ARCH="/" ;)
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