On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 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]. > Yes, but many of those build systems are not set up to do it, so we end up building with -fPIC and linking them into libpetsc.so. FWIW, I use shared libs on pretty much every system I use. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20130123/dd1d00ea/attachment.html>
