[petsc-dev] Why does configure ignore compiler output?

[Matthew Knepley]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> You can always turn that switch off for your test. What we were finding
>> is that some crappy compilers
>> were killing everything by putting in meaningless output for every
>> compile. We don't rip it out because
>> maybe those compilers die and we flip the switch in the new release.
>>
>
> What about a blacklist containing output that we do interpret as failure?
>

We had not tried that. It might work.

   Matt

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