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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 05:47:50AM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>    On Tuesday, 30 October 2012, Anders Logg wrote:
>
>      You may be right. It's a config file for how to build against
>      DOLFIN,
>      not for configuring DOLFIN.
>
>    Not even. It's a helper file for those who happen to use bash.Â
>
>    I think prefix/etc is completely wrong and I would be surprised if
>    having a helper script for bash users in
>
>    Â  Â /usr/etc
>
>    is acceptable in a Debian package.

Maybe not. We can change it.

>    Â
>
>      Another motivation to put it there is I want Dorsal to generateÂ
>
>      Â a
>      corresponding fenics.conf file and I want to put both files in the
>      same location. Where is otherwise a suitable location for
>      fenics.conf
>
>    Â
>
>    I don't use Dorsal, so I can't comment on what would be convenient.Â

Do you have your own build scripts? You must face the same problems.

--
Anders