This code in BuildSystem makes NO fucking sense

[Matthew Knepley]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
> in compilers.py it logs and error message but keeps on running if the C
> libraries cannot be used from Fortran. Why is this? It seems totally insane,
> it just delays the error until later when it is confusing and unclear what
> the problem is. Is there a DAMN good reason I shouldn't fix this?
>

I believe we did this because

  1) PETSc itself does not require it. We do all the linking with C

  2) Some Fortran linkers refused to handle the C libraries and we had not
work around

By failing, we would have prevented some user from enjoying his perversely
isolationist
Fortran compiler.

  Matt


>   Barry
>
-- 
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments
is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments
lead.
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