got it. thanks. On 09/28/2015 09:57 AM, Satish Balay wrote:

When any externalpackage is installed with --download-package option - it uses the same prefix [or none] as petsc.

If you need a different install location for any external package - you should install it manually - separately [and not use --download-package option]

Satish

On Mon, 28 Sep 2015, Chaffra Affouda wrote:

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Hi,

Is there a way to specify where petsc4py and mpi4py are installed during configure? It defaults to install_prefix/lib but that's not always convenient.

Cheers, Chaffra