[petsc-dev] improvement to ./configure

[Barry Smith]

   Please cut and paste exactly what command you run. The commands  
to ./configure usually have --xxxx they don't usually consist of a  
filename.

    Barry

On Jan 8, 2010, at 4:13 PM, Richard Tran Mills wrote:

> Matt,
>
> I now get something like the following when executing a  
> configuration script with a '_' in it:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "config/ubuntu-gnu_g.py", line 18, in <module>
>    configure.petsc_configure(configure_options)
>  File "/home/rmills/proj/petsc-dev/config/configure.py", line 150,  
> in petsc_configure
>    check_for_option_mistakes(sys.argv)
>  File "/home/rmills/proj/petsc-dev/config/configure.py", line 33, in  
> check_for_option_mistakes
>    raise ValueError('The option '+name+' should probably be  
> '+name.replace('_', '-'));
> ValueError: The option config/ubuntu-gnu_g.py should probably be  
> config/ubuntu-gnu-g.py
>
> It seems like not allowing '_' characters in these filenames is an  
> unintended consequence.
>
> --Richard
>
> Matthew Knepley wrote:
>> Pushed something. Let me know if this is what you had in mind.
>>  Matt
>> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov <mailto:bsmith at mcs.anl.gov 
>> >> wrote:
>>     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
>>        <mailto: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
>> -- 
>> 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
>
>
> -- 
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