Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> I think the following options are available to me:
>
> * hard-code the variable I had hoped to get from the foreign makefile, which will
>break
> if it differs from platform to platform or machine to machine.
> * give up on cross-platform and hand-create .la files for the Debian packages of
>the
> foreign libs (I maintain that package), which will only allow linking against
>the
> Debian-packaged version of the toolkit.
I think I'm going to go with option 1. The PETSc libs will be linked just fine, but
other
system libs from MPI to BLAS are a total crap-shoot without the ability to import the
variable
from an included makefile. So much for cross-platform.
Leaving the list now, so please CC any replies to me. Thanks for all the help.
-Adam P.
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