building PETSc on Windows

[Matthew Knepley]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> 2) BuildSystem assumes that the shell is '/bin/sh'... I would need it
> >> to find "sh" in the $PATH instead...
> >
> > Where is this assumption? In BuildSystem/config/programs.py we explicitly
> > search for 'sh', so it is available, we just need to use it everywhere.
> >
>
> Check this file:
>
> config/PETSc/utilities/petscdir.py
>
> See the lines
>
>      host   = config.base.Configure.executeShellCommand(self.shell+'
> '+configGuess, log = self.framework.log)[0]
>      output = config.base.Configure.executeShellCommand(self.shell+'
> '+configSub+' '+host, log = self.framework.log)[0]
>
> then see that 'self.shell' is naively defined to '/bin/sh' in
> Script.__init__() in the file below
>
> config/BuildSystem/script.py
>

Fixed. I left script the way it is, but fixed the configure stuff. I do not
want to
entangle config stuff in there. Let me know if this stuff works.

  Thanks,

     Matt


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