I'm attaching a patch that can be applied to petsc-2.3.2 for this to work. cd petsc-2.3.2-p3 patch -Np1 < opt.patch
Alternatively petsc-dev should have it http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/developers/index.html Let us know if this works. Satish On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Barry Smith wrote: > > Boyce, > > Satish is working on this right now. It is a problem that we > never properly resolved in that past and it needs to be solved. > Unfortunately we won't be able to get it into the current petsc release, > it will have to go in petsc-dev. > > Thanks for reminding us of this problem, > > Barry > > > On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Boyce Griffith wrote: > > > Hi, Folks -- > > > > I have an application in which, for better or for worse, I generate a huge > > number of sequential sparse AIJ matrices. I was wondering if it was > > possible > > to suppress the command line options affiliated with those objects. (I am > > using MatCreateSeqAIJ, and I am not using MatSetFromOptions.) > > > > The basic issue is that when a user runs the program with the '-help' flag, > > the options associated with these matrices tend to overwhelm all of the > > other > > command line options, e.g., KSP settings. > > > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions, > > > > -- Boyce Griffith > > > > > >