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+#!/bin/sh
+#BHEADER**********************************************************************
+# Copyright (c) 2008,  Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
+# Produced at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
+# This file is part of HYPRE.  See file COPYRIGHT for details.
+#
+# HYPRE is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
+# terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (as published by the Free
+# Software Foundation) version 2.1 dated February 1999.
+#
+# $Revision$
+#EHEADER**********************************************************************
+
+testname=`basename $0 .sh`
+
+# Echo usage information
+case $1 in
+   -h|-help)
+      cat <<EOF
+
+   **** This script requires certain external libraries. ****
+
+   $0 [-h|-help] {src_dir}
+
+   where: -h|-help   prints this usage information and exits
+          {src_dir}  is the hypre source directory
+          
+
+   This script runs a number of external library tests.
+
+   Example usage: $0 ../src
+
+EOF
+      exit
+      ;;
+esac
+
+# Setup
+test_dir=`pwd`
+output_dir=`pwd`/$testname.dir
+rm -fr $output_dir
+mkdir -p $output_dir
+src_dir=`cd $1; pwd`
+shift
+
+# Basic build and run tests
+mo="-j test"
+ro="-ams -ij -sstruct -struct"
+eo=""
+
+# RDF: Unfortunately, there is no way to pass the inside quotes through to configure
+# co="--enable-debug --with-blas-lib='-L/home/falgout2/codes/blas/BLAS-3.7.1 -lblas -lgfortran'"
+# ./test.sh basic.sh $src_dir -co: $co -mo: $mo
+# ./renametest.sh basic $output_dir/basic-blas
+
+co="--enable-debug --with-mli --with-superlu --with-superlu-include=/home/falgout2/codes/superlu/SuperLU_5.2.1/SRC"
+./test.sh basic.sh $src_dir -co: $co -mo: $mo
+./renametest.sh basic $output_dir/basic-superlu
+
+co="--enable-debug --with-mli --with-superlu --with-superlu-include=/home/falgout2/codes/superlu/SuperLU_5.2.1/SRC --with-dsuperlu --with-dsuperlu-include=/home/falgout2/codes/superlu/SuperLU_DIST_5.2.1/SRC"
+./test.sh basic.sh $src_dir -co: $co -mo: $mo
+./renametest.sh basic $output_dir/basic-dsuperlu
+
+# Echo to stderr all nonempty error files in $output_dir
+for errfile in $( find $output_dir ! -size 0 -name "*.err" )
+do
+   echo $errfile >&2
+done