[petsc-dev] improvement to ./configure

[Barry Smith]

   Matt,

    Thanks!

     Barry

On Jan 4, 2010, at 12:20 AM, Matthew Knepley wrote:

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