Satish, Could you please add this functionality? Hmm, eventually the results have to go into the src directories. How are you going to prevent problems with that? Barry On Mar 26, 2011, at 2:23 AM, Jed Brown wrote:

Can temporary files be put in a private directory so that multiple reconfigures can be run simultaneously? I think the rest of configure works.

******************************************************************************* UNABLE to EXECUTE BINARIES for ./configure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/jed/petsc/src/sys/viewer/interface/f90module.f90' ******************************************************************************* File "/home/jed/petsc/config/configure.py", line 272, in petsc_configure framework.configure(out = sys.stdout) File "/home/jed/petsc/config/BuildSystem/config/framework.py", line 922, in configure child.configure() File "/home/jed/petsc/config/PETSc/packages/sowing.py", line 123, in configure self.buildFortranStubs() File "/home/jed/petsc/config/PETSc/packages/sowing.py", line 83, in buildFortranStubs generatefortranstubs.main(self.petscdir.dir, self.bfort, self.petscdir.dir) File "/home/jed/petsc/bin/maint/generatefortranstubs.py", line 196, in main os.path.walk(dir, processDir, [petscdir, bfort]) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 237, in walk walk(name, func, arg) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 237, in walk walk(name, func, arg) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 237, in walk walk(name, func, arg) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 237, in walk walk(name, func, arg) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 229, in walk func(arg, top, names) File "/home/jed/petsc/bin/maint/generatefortranstubs.py", line 161, in processDir FixDir(petscdir,outdir) File "/home/jed/petsc/bin/maint/generatefortranstubs.py", line 123, in FixDir