[petsc-dev] Okay, petscmath.h is a complete piece of crap and now its breaking my build

[Jed Brown]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 19:44, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Verification of preprocess code is exactly as intensive, since you have to
> compile each version. What is your point here?
>

You can see all possible variants using a widely used and standardized
language with editor support, the turn-around time for a correctness check
is less because you don't have to reconfigure.


>
> The code I had would have continued to work, rather than break.
>

Why did you bother pulling/updating if you wanted to work with an old
version? This sounds more like a problem of you/the build system not knowing
when to reconfigure.
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