I should add that one motivation to support gnu/autoconf? 'make insall' model as closly as possible - is to make it easy for 'packagers' [deb,rpm etc..] to package PETSc
OK, this make sense... I'll try this when I have some free time, I've been playing a bit generating rpm's for Fedora.
config - whatever that means] and make it available for their respective distributions. Currently we only have only debian/freebsd packages - and nothing more.
And I'm hoping that these packagers have their own models for installing multiple configs [via different prefix], so potentially multiple variants of PETSc config can be packaged [if they chose to do it].
However I think the requirement of 'PETSC_DIR' might still be a minor hurdle for this mode. [the alternative would be providing compiler wrappers but thats a different discussion]
Satish
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