Barry,
I think the use of PETSC_ARCH_NAME is motivated by a request I sent in
December last year, see
http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/2008-December/001120.html
We use it when configuring SLEPc with a prefix-based PETSc. If you
remove this variable, we will have to think about an alternative way
of supporting that case.
Jose
On 25/11/2009, Barry Smith wrote:
>
> Lisandro,
>
> That change will certainly NOT be reverted. PETSC_ARCH_NAME!
> what the heck kind of variable name is that?
>
> I need to understand the reason for PETSC_ARCH_NAME, then we can
> come up with some solution. What is the difference between
> PETSC_ARCH_NAME and PETSC_ARCH? Is it only needed when --prefix is
> used (so PETSC_ARCH does not exist), if so, exactly why is it
> needed, the whole idea behind --prefix is to eliminate PETSC_ARCH,
> so why is it needed? How is PETSC_ARCH_NAME used?
>
> Barry
>
>
>
> On Nov 25, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
>
>> Barry, an outcome of the two changesets below:
>>
>> changeset: 14451:b289577caf8f
>> user: barrysmith at bsmith-laptop.mcs.anl.gov
>> date: Mon Oct 19 16:31:16 2009 -0500
>> summary: update to install.py to ONLY use RDict.db (and not
>> command line)
>>
>> changeset: 14383:447d34bd2d4b
>> user: barrysmith at bsmith-laptop.mcs.anl.gov
>> date: Thu Oct 08 16:33:59 2009 -0500
>> summary: finished cleaning up makefiles, moved charactoristic.h
>> to
>> include location standard place where it is easy to use
>>
>>
>> was that these two lines in config/PETSc/utilities/arch.py were
>> removed:
>>
>> # SLEPc configure need this info
>> self.addMakeMacro('PETSC_ARCH_NAME',self.arch)
>>
>>
>> SLEPc and petsc4py/slepc4py/tao4py relies on this variable being
>> defined in makefiles. There is now a new way to get the original name
>> of the build-time $PETSC_ARCH? If not, any chance this change could
>> be
>> reverted?
>>
>> --
>> Lisandro Dalc?n
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