[petsc-dev] broke configure removed config.guess and config.sub

[Matthew Knepley]

How about lighting a fire under those fuckers at systems so I can
reconfigure? FTP has
been down all day.

   Matt

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
>   Matt and everyone
>
>    I have intentionally partly broken configure by removing ALL traces of
> the use of the two horrible horrible bash shell scripts config.guess and
> config.sub that should have been removed a decade ago and make configure
> work only on Unix.
>
>   This will break sharedLibraries.py that used hostOSBase which computed
> using host_os and TetGen.py and Triangle.py that for some strange reason
> also use it. Best to get rid of hostOSbase completely and do proper tests
> for different ways of making shared libraries.  Until this is fixed
> sharedlibraries won't work.
>
>   Please report or fix all problems that come up ASAP.
>
>   Barry
>
> Yes be pissed at me for ruining your day, but I'm finally lighting the fire
> under bad configure practices that make it only work on Unix. Cygwin usage
> must die!
>
>
>


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What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments
is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments
lead.
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