[petsc-dev] broken builds

[Barry Smith]

On Aug 30, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Jed Brown wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 14:01, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> Make sure you rm ${PETSC_ARCH}/conf/prometheus before running. Removing the external package is not enough to force a rebuild.
> 
> Yeah, I suspect this was the issue because I fresh build worked fine for me.
> 
> How about --download-package=rebuild actually rebuilding the package and then setting plain --download-package in reconfigure-arch.py? Then maybe --rebuild-externalpackages apply the same stunt to all --download packages?
> 

   First he made the reasonable suggestion of adding feature a, then since that worked feature b, then why not c and d, by the time he got to q they were draining in complexity, nobody understood the software anymore and random things broke all the time. 

   Barry


> It's lame to have to delete these package files manually and there isn't even a nice way to glob them.
>