[petsc-dev] new clones for petsc-3.1

[Satish Balay]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Satish Balay wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:

> > Ah! An additional little detail... Could you remove a "=" from the
> > start banner lines when running ./configure? Or perhaps better make it
> > match the banner at the end (i.e, make these ===... lines start and
> > end with th"xxx" and fit in a default-width (80 cols) console/xterm )?
> > ...
> 
> What is the problem with the startup banner? If you use
> --download-package - you will see a bunch of similar boxes with
> verbose info from configure. So current scheme is - all the
> '=========' stuff is verbose info from configure.
> 
> The final line is instructions to user - hence they have separate
> format. 'xxx========xxx'
> 
> I can make some of them 80 colmn - but there are bunch of text that
> gets printed that will never fit in 80 cols. [so we never try to
> conform to this limit..]

Ok - I shrinked most of the dialog boxes to 80 cols - however most
text printed by configure will be more than that..

satish