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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 09:20 +0200, Anders Logg wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 08:06:23AM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 15:23 +0000, noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > > revno: 5013
> > > committer: Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > branch nick: dolfin-dev
> > > timestamp: Wed 2010-08-18 13:57:25 +0200
> > > message:
> > >   Improve search for PETSC_PATH by examining LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> > >   No need to set PETSC_PATH or PETSC_ARCH if LD_LIBRARY PATH is set.
> >
> > Sounds platform dependent to me? Probably better to search the CMake
> > list of library locations.
> 
> It's just one of many in a list of places where to look. The list of
> Debian install locations is also platform-dependent. We could add
> other locations as well.
> 

My point is that CMAke should know the standard library locations better
than we do, so let CMake provide the info when possible. When we can't
expect CMake to know the location (like something Debian-specific), then
we should provide it.

Garth


> In general, one needs to set PETSC_DIR, but we can also try to be
> intelligent and search some common locations.

> --
> Anders