On 25/11/2009, Barry Smith wrote:

Why does SLEPc's configure.py need to know PETSC_ARCH? PETSC_ARCH is a just a string that the user made up; in the --prefix case it means nothing at all and has no information associated with it.

If you are installing a SLEPC based on a --prefix install of PETSc, you can just make up any PETSC_ARCH and use it doing your ./ configure and make. If you are also doing a --prefix for SLEPC (which is likely when PETSc was done with --prefix) then once you have done make install the need for that PETSC_ARCH is gone. If you are not doing a --prefix for SLEPc then that PETSC_ARCH is what the user will need to use when they use the SLEPc. Does this not work for some reason?

Barry

We fixed slepc-dev so that PETSC_ARCH_NAME is not required anymore. Jose