On Oct 29, 2013, at 2:20 PM, Satish Balay <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Jed Brown wrote: > >> Barry Smith <[email protected]> writes: >>> Besides us, hardly anyone uses more than 2 PETSC_ARCH! >> >> And here I have 60 on one machine. It might be time to clean up a >> little. >> >>> So how about just moving externalpackages into $PETSC_ARCH and >>> don’t build some elaborate scheme that reuses tar balls for a tiny >>> number of people. In other words a clean truly means clean and >>> gets new tar balls. >> >> That sounds good to me. > > if we place reconfigure script [copy] in PETSC_DIR - ugly confusing clutter. > need --clean option :) But we want to have the clean option because we want to tell users like Aron who run into that type of problem “Run $PETSC_ARCH/conf/reconf*.py or ./configure with the additional option —with-clean” instead of “remove the directory $PETSC_ARCH then run reconf$PETSC_ARCH.py or ./configure again”. The risk of users making mistakes goes up with the cube of the number of commands they are required to run. Barry > > An then - this script will be more visible and then perhaps more folks > will use it.. > > Satish
