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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 07:39:51PM -0500, Barry Smith wrote:
> 
> > I don't understand. Isn't there always only one single PETSC_ARCH on
> > each system you compile PETSc?
> 
>    WOW! Matter and anit-matter collide :-)
> 
>    The only reason for PETSC_ARCH is to support several different sets
> of libraries simultaneously; especially debug and optimized but also
> with different compilers etc. It is a rare day in hack that any machine
> at ANL has only a single PETSC_ARCH built.
> 
>   If we didn't think multiple PETSC_ARCH's were important, we would just
> use the "standard open-source" install model.
> 
>    Barry

I guess I live in a simpler universe where PETSC_ARCH=linux-gnu is a
natural constant... :-)

/Anders