eliminating a cause of my recent rant and argument with Matt

I think a root of the miscommunication between Matt and I with regard to --with-mpi-shared is that --with is used for TWO different reasons 1) --with-mpi=0 --with-x=1 etc are used to indicate we want to turn off/on a package. In other words they are COMMANDS to BuildSystem 2)

eliminating a cause of my recent rant and argument with Matt

--with-mpi=0 is a command, which is mandatory, and --with-sizeofint=8 seems to specify an optional parameter. To me '--with' suggests something optional, so I'd vote for keeping '--with' to indicate optional parameters and replace it with '--use' (an imperative) when specifying mandatory commands.

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Wrt batch mode, the relavent PETSc configure flags are: '--with-batch=1', '--with-mpi-shared=0', '--with-memcmp-ok', '--sizeof_char=1', '--sizeof_void_p=4', '--sizeof_short=2', '--sizeof_int=4', '--sizeof_long=4', '--sizeof_size_t=4', '--sizeof_long_long=8',

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It should be pay off to be consistent :-(. I have see a --have in there :-) Barry On Dec 15, 2009, at 3:30 PM, Satish Balay wrote: Wrt batch mode, the relavent PETSc configure flags are: '--with-batch=1', '--with-mpi-shared=0', '--with-memcmp-ok', '--sizeof_char=1',