When we first tried to follow “community standards” with —prefix I was told
that “community standards” did not recognize the need for multiple installs and
that community standards did not allow for putting archs onto names to allow
multiple installs. We specifically removed the concept of PETSC_ARCH for
installs for this reason. Have community standards changed?
Barry
On Jan 22, 2014, at 11:31 AM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sean Farley <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> [email protected] writes:
>>
>>> Sean Farley <[email protected]> writes:
>>>>> $prefix/bin/petsc-${version}-${arch}-config
>>>>>
>>>>> and symlink $prefix/bin/petsc-config to it by default?
>>>>>
>>>>> Then always namespace libraries and includes?
>>>>
>>>> This is what I had in mind as well. Though, distributions would remove
>>>> the symlink since that would conflict.
>>>
>>> Debian would probably manage it through /etc/alternatives.
>>
>> Just a note that MacPorts would manage it through etc/select :-)
>
> Thanks, Sean. (I really was asking you as much as Barry/Matt/Satish/etc.
> Packaging is a different environment.)
>
> What do the rest of you think?
