> On Apr 14, 2015, at 4:30 PM, Mark Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 
> How about when they copy their .bashrc file - which might include
> PETSC_OPTIONS env variable?  [or LD_LIBRARY_PATH to wrong version of
> libraries]
> 
> 
> This has never been a problem.

   I suspect this is because almost no one knows about PETSC_OPTIONS and uses 
it.


>  Perhaps everyone know about .bashrc and must deal with it, but .petscrc 
> falls of the radar and they/we forget about it ...
>  
> Is the current thought to remove PETSC_OPTIONS env variable aswell?
> 
> Perhaps ~/.petscrc things can go into .bashrc somehow?
>  
> 
> How about PWD/.petscrc and PWD/petscrc? remove them aswell?
> 
> These are the "normal" rc files that are really used to augment the command 
> line.  And in the case of FORTRAN codes, which don't add an arg parser of 
> some sort, it is the command line.
> 
> Mark 
>  
> 
> Satish
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