[petsc-dev] improvement to ./configure

[Matthew Knepley]

I can try to put something in.

  Matt

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
>   Matt,
>
>   It would be nice when some user types --xxxx-yyyyyy_zzzz and they meant
> --xxxx-yyyyyy-zzzz it would give them a nice error message. This is made
> difficult by the fact that superlu_dist name as an underscore in it. Are
> there other special cases?
>
>   Could we have BuildSystem barf with helpful error message whenever
> someone puts an _ instead of - except when allowed like superlu_dist?
>
>   We semi-regularly waste time with petsc-maint messages of people who
> cannot distinguish _ from -
>
>    Barry
>
>


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