On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Barry Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bsmith@mcs.anl.gov">bsmith@mcs.anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On Aug 30, 2011, at 1:19 PM, Satish Balay wrote:<br>
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> On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Barry Smith wrote:<br>
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>> Compilers:<br>
>> C Compiler: /home/balay/petsc-dev/arch-cuda-double/bin/mpicc<br>
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>> It should also print the underlying compiler that is used by mpicc.<br>
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> Right now - configure.log is the location for details. [and wrt<br>
> --download stuff - make.log also has the configure command which has<br>
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> Sure - we don't have everything in summary printed by configure<br>
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</div></div> Well if room is so tight in the "summary printed by configure" then why do we waste room printing<br>
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>> C Compiler: /home/balay/petsc-dev/arch-cuda-double/bin/mpicc<br>
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</div> since that conveys no information. Why not take it out and then there will be room for actually providing useful information.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I thought this was useful, in that this allows a user to reconstruct what we are doing. He can find that compiler</div>
<div>and try it when he gets an error. If you intend that we, the developers use the info, I am fine with the log.</div><div><br></div><div> Matt</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>
-- Norbert Wiener<br>