Software Requirements
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Petsc 2.2.1 
Parmetis (parallel only)
MPICH (parallel only)
SuperLU_DIST (parallel only)

Operating Systems
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So far this package has been built and run on Fedora Core 3, and MAC OS-X. The 
parallel version, has yet to be run on a parallel cluster.

Building the Libraries
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This uses make to build the libraries. The existing makefile system is built 
off of the petsc makefile system. If you look in any of the makefiles, you 
will see the line:

include ${PETSC_DIR}/bmake/common/base

This sets most of the definitions and flags used during the build process. The 
libraries.def file supplies the locations of the header files and the built 
libraries.

Linking
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This part can be a little tricky. We've chosen to use some c++ utilities, such 
as the mesh converter. So if you use any of the c++ utilities you will need to 
use a c++ linker and make sure you have used 'extern "C" ' in all the right 
places. Also if you a using the parallel version you will need to explicity 
write out the linking command because if you include the petsc definitions in 
you makefile they will link with the wrong directories.