On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:11:16 -0600, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote: > Well, when you call PetscInitialize(), in Fortran, it is reading the > command line arguments. You, of course, do not have to use them, but > they are there.
Note that you can also specify options in ~/.petscrc, $PWD/petscrc, and in a user-defined file. I highly recommend providing a way for your users to get runtime options to PETSc, it's never beneficial to hard-code the whole solution process. Jed
