On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Sean Farley wrote: > > > > Essentially, yes. The advantage of actually using pkgconfig is that > > autoconf, cmake, and others already have support for it. > > > True. > > Actually, I'm almost done (once DESTDIR gets supported) with implementing a > Portfile for PETSc in MacPorts (which has the ability to have multiple > versions of packages installed), if anyone uses a mac and is interested in > that.
One Issue [which might be mac specific] with DESTDIR is: 'make install' does 'make shared' at the dest dir. I'm assuming - one of the reasons for this is: .dylib on Macs hardcode some location info. If so - DESTDIR won't work on Mac [with sharedlibs?]. If not - there is no need to do 'make shared' during 'make install'? [Barry?] Also --download-petsc4py does the petsc4py build during 'make install' - we just have to make sure this continues to work with DESTDIR.. Satish
