On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:35 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, Thomas Hisch wrote: > >> Is there any benefit to the user if he enables boost support in petsc >> with the --with-boost configure option ? What is the difference >> between a petsc build with enabled boost support and a build without >> boost support? I can't find any information about this neither in the >> manual nor on the web. > > boost primarily required by 'sieve' part of PETSc [which requires a 'c++' > build]. But this functionality is being relaced by DMComplex [a 'c' > implementation] >
Does this mean that if I don't need the sieve part then compiling with or without boost enabled does not make any difference for me ?
