On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> wrote:

How can your make.log go away if its in PETSC_ARCH/conf ? Is this a useful argument?

The symlinks point there. The way it has always worked is that the symlinks point at the latest PETSC_ARCH/conf/ and the files there get overwritten (with one level of backup). Are you saying the symlink should sometimes gets removed and sometimes the normal file gets deleted and replaced by a symlink? I think that's confusing.