[petsc-dev] __SDIR__ as string or not

[Satish Balay]

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
>