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

[Barry Smith]

  Satish,

   Did you get a response from systems? Can you please check on this?

    Thanks

    Barry

Systems should not be letting these systems be down for more than a few minutes per week/month. Not all day.


On Jan 27, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Matthew Knepley wrote:

> 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.
> -- Norbert Wiener