[petsc-dev] making BuildSystem hard to debug

[Matthew Knepley]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
>  Matt,
>
>   One thing that has always pissed me off about BuildSystem but for some
> reason I never had the energy to bitch about is when a compile goes wrong,
> BuildSystem logs the source code that wouldn't compiler BUT IT DOES NOT LOG
> THE CONTENTS OF THE TWO FILES
>
> #include "confdefs.h"
> #include "conffix.h"
>
> MAKING DEBUGGING HARDER. Can you please have BuildSystem log these files
> when it logs the source code that didn't compiler.
>

We originally did this. It was way too long. I just debugged the same thing.

   Matt


>   Thanks
>
>
>   Barry
>
>
>


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experiments lead.
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