[petsc-dev] making BuildSystem hard to debug

[Matthew Knepley]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:46, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The compile routine does not decide whether to crash, so I had
>> configure.py dump these headers if there was an exception. I
>> can test it later today.
>>
>
> When a test fails, why doesn't it wrap the whole test case up in the
> exception object. If that exception is not caught, it prints a summary and
> places the complete test case in configure.log?
>

I am not sure what you mean "wrap the whole test case up".

   Matt

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