[petsc-dev] __SDIR__ as string or not

[Satish Balay]

Actually - directory is a relative path within petsc - so it shouldn't
have spaces. So - I guess this is not an issue..

satish


On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Satish Balay wrote:

> One potential issue is - if the dir has spaces - as on windows.. Hence the need for quotes for -D__INSDIR__='directory'
> 
> satish
> 
> 
> On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Barry Smith wrote:
> 
> > 
> >   Currently the macro variable __SDIR__ is defined in conf/variables with
> > quotes around it, passed to the compiler as -D__SDIR__="directory" and then
> > used in PETSc source code as a string. This works but is fragile to shells
> > removing various quotes before passing to the compiler.
> > 
> >  Lisandro suggested changing the model to use -D__INSDIR__=directory with no
> > quotes and then in petscerror.h have
> > #define PetscStringize(a) #a
> > #define __SDIR__ PetscStringize(__INSDIR__)
> > 
> >  Seems to work on my machine for C and C++ compilers so I am pushing to
> > petsc-dev. Please report problems ASAP.
> > 
> >   Barry
> > 
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