On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 3:20 AM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Why can't we find a way to avoid needing this option? I'm not aware of > other packages with an analogous configure option. Are they giving up > something that we consider valuable? >
The other packages just break. We put it in to interact with Python, which requires an MPI shared library. If you do not check, the executable just breaks in weird ways, like it would for PyTrilinos. The check is an actual check, but it requires running. Matt > Satish Balay <[email protected]> writes: > > > run configure with the addtional option --known-mpi-shared-libraries=1 > -- 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
