</p>
<p>
- As with our <href="#petsc">PETSc support</a>, <acronym>deal.II</acronym>
- has wrappers that allow Trilinos linear algebra classes to be used with
- the same interface as <acronym>deal.II</acronym> classes. These
- interfaces can be enabled by setting the <code>TRILINOS_DIR</code>
+ Unlike with <href="#petsc">PETSc support</a>, <acronym>deal.II</acronym>
+ does not currently have wrappers that allow Trilinos linear algebra
+ classes to be used with
+ the same interface as <acronym>deal.II</acronym> classes, though we hope
+ to have them in the future. However, our Makefiles are set up so that if
+ Trilinos use is configured in, header files are automatically found and
+ libraries are linked with. To do so, set the <code>TRILINOS_DIR</code>
environment variable to the path to an existing Trilinos installation,
- or using the <code>--enable-trilinos=/path/to/trilinos</code> switch of
- the <code>./configure</code> script. The Trilinos installation needs to
+ or use the <code>--enable-trilinos=/path/to/trilinos</code> switch of
+ the deal.II <code>./configure</code> script. The Trilinos installation needs to
provide the same kind of libraries that <acronym>deal.II</acronym> is
configured for, i.e. if you want deal.II to use shared libraries, then
Trilinos needs to use shared libraries as well.