Well the current code has the option of building petsc via cmake [but this mode is deprecated - and the default build uses straight gnumake]
So if you configure PETSc with --shared-libraries=1 [default] - this flag is set in conf/PETScConfig.cmake So you can rebuild petc with --shared-libraries=0 - and this flag will go away. BTW: I'm not sure why this affects your application. [as applications don't build libraries]. Or is it that you have a library that builds over PETSc? [in this case - it generally makes sense to build it as shared anyway] Also - I'm guessing - there must be a way for you to reset this variable in your cmake config - if thats whats requred by your app. Jed should be able to confirm.. Satish On Tue, 13 Oct 2015, Arne Morten Kvarving wrote: > hi there; > > why does the cmake config file set the BUILD_SHARED_LIBS variable? this > affects all buildsystem where the config file is included, and has 0 effect on > the actual petsc side of things. > > i don't see why petsc should decided whether i want to use static libraries in > my application or not. > i can keep hacking around it, or supply a patch to get rid of it. but i > figured i'd ask for the reasoning first. > > if this should have gone to -dev, i'm sorry. i thought it fit better here. > > arnem > >
