[petsc-dev] another complaint about PETSc's crappy information presentation that never improves

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Barry Smith wrote:

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> When running make all
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> Using C/C++ compile: /bccd/home/bccd/pflotran/petsc_folder/petsc-dev/arch-linux2-c-debug/bin/mpicc 
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> THIS TELLS ME ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!   It gives no indication of what compiler is being used.  When mpicc like this is shown it should also AUTOMATICALLY do something like mpicc -show to tell me what compiler is actually being used!  We suck
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Currently the details of show, version, compiler paths etc are in configure.log

I've add 'mpicc -show' to 'make info'

http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/BuildSystem/rev/a044b05310ee
http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/petsc-dev/rev/df5c1a59e002

Satish