Hello Juha, On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 11:27 +0100, Juha Jäykkä wrote: > Package: libpetsc3.1 > Version: 3.1.dfsg-7 > Severity: wishlist > > > PETSc, when compiled with C++ as C-language, should be installed in > $(PETSC_ARCH)-cxx-opt, not in $(PETSC_ARCH)-c-opt. This is required by various > third party libraries that depend on PETSc, such as TAO. It should be ok to > symlink c-opt to cxx-opt (or the other way around).
Okay, I'll go ahead and make this symlink. > I admit, this distinction > between cxx and c versions of the library, where --with-c-support gives > c-compatibility anyway, is strange to me. I have the third party libraries > compiled with CC, but all my own code is C and compiled with cc anyway, so I > am fairly certain there is no need for PETSc --with-c-language=C version at > all, but perhaps some exotic environment requires that - I do not know. > > The best solution would be, I think, to have both cxx and c versions > available, > but then we would have the immediate problem of which version gets used if > both > are installed. Perhaps the alternatives-system can handle that and anyone > wishing > to use the non-default version would just set PETSC_DIR and PETSC_ARCH > manually? > > Or is there a nicer solution? I think if upstream has figured out a way to support both C++ and C in the same libraries, I'd like to leave it as such, it's simpler for everyone that way. Right? Thanks, Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Engineering consulting with open source tools http://www.opennovation.com/
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