On Wed, 23 Jan 2013, Jed Brown wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > > > > Should we consider making --with-shared-libraries the default on most > > systems (those it is known to behave well on)? > > > > I think shared is a better default. I'm not sure how smart we should try to > be about building on machines that don't like shared libraries. > > > > > > Satish, > > > > Could you switch on --with-shared-libraries on all nightly > > builds and see what breaks? > > > > Did this ever happen? It looks like the nightlies are still static.
ok - pushed this change now. We had this on as default sometime back - and had plenty of petsc-maint due to it - hence we switched back. Part of the issue could be due to the way we handle externalpackages. Ideally each externalpackage should build its own sharedlibrary [relibaly]. Satish > > > > > > After we get that past I'll have you switch on > > --with-dynamic-libraries, but let's leave that for later :-) > > > > Thanks > > > > Barry > > > > >
