[petsc-dev] PetscDLSym()

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On 25 April 2011 19:01, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
>  Did I break something?  Do you want to change it back to not be broken?  I cannot see the line number below where the problem was detected.
>

Yes, now you cannot dlopen the Python shared library

>   Is it because PetscDLSym() returns an error if it doesn't find the symbol from
>

Yes

> #if defined(PETSC_HAVE_DLERROR)
>  { const char *e = dlerror();
>    if (e) SETERRQ2(PETSC_COMM_SELF, PETSC_ERR_ARG_WRONG,"Error obtaining symbol '%s' from dynamic library:\n  Error message from dlsym(): '%s'\n", symbol, e);
>  }
> #endif /* !PETSC_HAVE_DLSYM */
>

This is the issue...

>
> This was commented out, I blindly uncommented it based on something Jed wrote. But it is fine with me if you delete this check.
>

OK, I'll delete the check...



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