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

[Matthew Knepley]

Crap I fixed this another way. Will merge.

   Matt

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Barry Smith 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.
>
> for now replaced hostOSbase with sys.platform.
>
> Linux,Mac shared now works. Others might need fixing based on this new
> text string from sys.platform
>
> Satish
>
> >
> >    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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