I'm not sure why it was written this way. Likely PETSC_DIR was not available in
some usage?
The makefiles went through reorg since then - so perhaps there isn't any issue
with using ${PETSC_DIR}/${PETSC_ARCH}/tests/testfiles
https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc/-/merge_requests/2934
Satish
On Tue, 30 Jun 2020, Jacob Faibussowitsch wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> To build petsc from anywhere I always use “make libs”, but I recently
> discovered that this makes a $PETSC_ARCH/ folder in the current directory
> that includes tests/testfiles. Testfiles is completely empty, and doesn’t
> seem to do anything. I’ve been spamming this around my machine over the past
> few months, resulting in A LOT of these arch folders littered around the
> place.
>
> I’m wondering if this is not a bug in the make recipe? Should it be
> ${PETSC_DIR}/${PETSC_ARCH}/tests/testfiles instead of
> ./${PETSC_ARCH}/tests/testfiles?
>
> libs: ${PETSC_DIR}/${PETSC_ARCH}/lib/petsc/conf/files
> ./${PETSC_ARCH}/tests/testfiles <-------------------------------
> +@cd ${PETSC_DIR} && MAKEFLAGS="-j$(MAKE_NP) -l$(MAKE_LOAD)
> $(MAKEFLAGS)" ${OMAKE_PRINTDIR} -f gmakefile ${MAKE_PAR_OUT_FLG} V=${V} libs
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jacob Faibussowitsch
> (Jacob Fai - booss - oh - vitch)
> Cell: (312) 694-3391
>
>
