On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 15:25, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote: > >> How exactly would we keep track of that? Go and look to see what kind of >> crazy shit was generated by the 'make install' in SuperLU? >> > > Install it to a temporary directory and compute the manifest on that. > > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/su/superlu/PKGBUILD > > Most packages support DESTDIR which makes it simpler. > Which breaks things that bake in the install directory name. And some packages have a workaround and some don't, which is again a less than robust way to operate and I think will create more headaches than it solves. Matt -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20110830/f36b4ace/attachment.html>
