My commonly used options for configuring PETSc

my-petsc-config.py

import sys
import os
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('config'))
import configure

mode = 'debug'
if len(sys.argv) == 2: mode = sys.argv[1]

configure_options = [
  '--download-exodusii',
  '--download-hdf5',
  '--download-netcdf',
  '--download-zlib',
  '--download-pnetcdf',
]
if mode == "opt":
  configure_options += [
    '--with-debugging=0',
    'COPTFLAGS=-O3',
    'CXXOPTFLAGS=-O3',
    'FOPTFLAGS=-O3',
  ]
configure_options += [
  'PETSC_ARCH=arch-linux2-c-%s' % mode,
]

configure.petsc_configure(configure_options)