On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Shao-Ching Huang <huangsc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi > > I downloaded petsc using the "hg clone > http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/releases/petsc-3.2"; method. Now, after > hg pull/update (some files are changed), do I always have to build > from scratch (i.e. compiling everything, including the --download-xxx > stuff)? Is there a short cut to rebuild libpetsc.{so,a} when I have no > configuration change? > The point of having a configuration stage is that it allows us to be ignorant of the precise configuration of your platform. If you want a package, there are several package managers with PETSc (like Debian), but it is hard to keep them up to date. Personally, I prefer the "built it for the machine" philosophy (like Gentoo). Matt > Thanks, > > Shao-Ching -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-users/attachments/20111107/9a5048e3/attachment.htm>
