[petsc-dev] raise ValueError in check_for_option_mistakes

[Matthew Knepley]

Pushed what I think you want.

   Matt

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Matt,
>
> raise ValueError in check_for_option_mistakes() is not trapped by any
> error handler. Any idea if this code can be reorganized so that
> ValueError from check_for_option_mistakes() doesn't give a stack? [if
> not I can do print(message)/exit(2) for this routine]
>
> thanks,
> satish
>
> ------------
>
> asterix:/home/balay/tmp/petsc-dev>./config/examples/asterix/asterix64.py
> --download-f_blas-lapack=1
>
> ===============================================================================
>             Configuring PETSc to compile on your system
>
> ===============================================================================
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "./config/examples/asterix/asterix64.py", line 12, in <module>
>    configure.petsc_configure(configure_options)
>  File "/home/balay/tmp/petsc-dev/config/configure.py", line 180, in
> petsc_configure
>    check_for_option_mistakes(sys.argv)
>  File "/home/balay/tmp/petsc-dev/config/configure.py", line 40, in
> check_for_option_mistakes
>    raise ValueError('The option '+name+' should probably be
> '+name.replace('_', '-'));
> ValueError: The option --download-f_blas-lapack should probably be
> --download-f-blas-lapack
> asterix:/home/balay/tmp/petsc-dev>
>
>
>
>


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