[petsc-dev] configure default to --with-etags=0 ?

[Satish Balay]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2014, Jed Brown wrote:

> Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
> > Hm - 18 sec on my linux laptop and (a new) ssd. [I wonder why the difference]
> 
> Don't know.  I use btrfs over dm-crypt (twofish-xts-plain).
> 
> > wrt es - perhaps the PATHs are longer [and they mostly point to nfs
> > software] and thats affecting the run time. But I've seen multiple
> > minutes spent on etags on various machines..
> >
> > When we added these defaults - primary 'repo' users were
> > developrs. But now we want big chunk of our users to use repos. And
> > also for ourselves we are now switching between branches - and these
> > files are generated more frequently. So those initial assumptions
> > [when we made these things default] are not really valid anymore..
> 
> I use GNU Global so I have no use for etags.

Hm - another tool to learn..

I guess I should look at speeding up etags [for usage from a git repo]

balay at es^/scratch/balay/petsc(maint) $ date;git ls-files |grep -v systems/Apple/ | xargs etags;date
Mon Sep  8 16:05:11 CDT 2014
Mon Sep  8 16:05:12 CDT 2014

We now have file names with spaces in the repo?

balay at es^/scratch/balay/petsc(maint) $ git ls-files |grep ' '
systems/Apple/OSX/examples/PETSc cocoa example/PETSc cocoa example.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
systems/Apple/OSX/examples/PETSc cocoa example/PETSc cocoa example/AppDelegate.h
systems/Apple/OSX/examples/PETSc cocoa example/PETSc cocoa example/AppDelegate.m
systems/Apple/OSX/examples/PETSc cocoa example/PETSc cocoa example/PETSc cocoa example-Info.plist
systems/Apple/OSX/examples/PETSc cocoa example/PETSc cocoa example/PETSc cocoa example-Prefix.pch
systems/Apple/OSX/examples/PETSc cocoa example/PETSc cocoa example/en.lproj/Credits.rtf
systems/Apple/OSX/examples/PETSc cocoa example/PETSc cocoa example/en.lproj/InfoPlist.strings
systems/Apple/OSX/examples/PETSc cocoa example/PETSc cocoa example/en.lproj/MainMenu.xib
systems/Apple/OSX/examples/PETSc cocoa example/PETSc cocoa example/main.m
systems/Apple/OSX/examples/PETSc command line example/PETSc command line example.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
systems/Apple/OSX/examples/PETSc command line example/PETSc command line example/PETSc_command_line_example.1
systems/Apple/OSX/examples/PETSc command line example/PETSc command line example/main.c

Satish