On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Barry Smith wrote: > > On Jul 17, 2008, at 1:09 PM, Satish Balay wrote: > > > > > And the reason we want to promote usage of ./config/bgp-ibm-opt.py > > notation is so that we we don't have users creating shell scripts with > > configure options in them. > > What is the proceedure that people use when configureing for packages > based on autoconf. Do they "create shell scripts with configure options in > them"?
> Do they always just magically type them at the command prompt properly? > Do they never use more than 1 or 2 options? I guess - once the list of options become sufficiently large - some script gets used.. With PETSc - invariably the configure options list is long. > If we could support the same way that this is done with autoconf packages > that would improve a users experience with PETSc. I guess we don't prevent the usage from shell scripts. We just promote the alternative usage of adding configure options in a python script. Satish
