[petsc-dev] making BuildSystem hard to debug

[Barry Smith]

On Mar 21, 2012, at 8:38 AM, Matthew Knepley wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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>  Matt,
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>   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
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> #include "confdefs.h"
> #include "conffix.h"
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> MAKING DEBUGGING HARDER. Can you please have BuildSystem log these files when it logs the source code that didn't compiler.
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> We originally did this. It was way too long. I just debugged the same thing.

   If you just dump it on a crash then length doesn't matter.  Without it one is left to completely guess exactly what is in them and could have triggered the problem.


   Barry

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>    Matt
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>   Thanks
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>   Barry
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