On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:09 AM, Thomas Hisch <t.hisch at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 ? > Yes Matt -- 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/20120717/243e94d4/attachment-0001.html>
