peraps this is one case where --prefix install is useful? Satish
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, Jed Brown wrote: > I was recently building PETSc on a system where /home is a slow NFS > mount so of course I wanted to build on /scratch. However, since I want > other nodes to use it, PETSC_DIR should really be in /home. My initial > thought was to symlink from /home to /scratch, then move the directory > after compilation of several configurations. This does not work due to > os.path.isdir returning false for symlinks to directories, and the use > of os.path.realpath to confirm that PETSC_DIR is the current directory. > > Would it be reasonable to relax these checks to merely confirm that > PETSC_DIR *points* to the current directory, or will that cause more > confusion than it's worth? I wouldn't expect people to set up such > symlinks unless they knew the score. > > Jed >
