> On Feb 25, 2018, at 9:59 PM, Balay, Satish <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Feb 2018, Smith, Barry F. wrote: > >>> PETSc --download-* is a package manager, albeit very crufty (though it >>> gets the job done). Basically all package managers function by >>> installing with a private DESTDIR, bundling up the result, then >>> unpacking into the target. >> >> That's not how PETSc's works. It tells the each package the final prefix >> and each package installs into that location directly. > > This is primarily because - we need these packages in the > final/install location before configure can go to the next step of > detecting/using this package for the next stage of dependency.
Oh yeah, I forgot that reason also. > So > DESTDIR is not useful for us [and its not clear to me if most > externalpackages we use support DESTDIR (or not) anyway] > > Satish
