> On Dec 24, 2014, at 12:26 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > > In this case, it might be more reliable to compare "cc --version".
Presumably this is trivial with the gnumake stuff? And the mythical petsc-config could do any number of sanity checks each time it is run. Barry > Modules was never intended as a robust solution. It was a disgusting > hack that probably seemed okay at the time, but ended up as an > established methodology and now we have to live with its many points of > failure, horrible debugability, and lack of an API.
