[petsc-dev] best fix for -hosts localhost issue

[Barry Smith]

  I always run on my mac and never set a hosts or anything like that. What is the problem? Please send all output from failure if you do not use hosts and configure.log

   Barry

On Nov 15, 2013, at 12:53 PM, Geoffrey Irving <irving at naml.us> wrote:

> I'd like to implement the right fix for the -hosts localhost issue.
> Recall that the problem is passing "-hosts localhost" to mpiexec when
> running tests.  Matt apparently needs it for his machine (Mac OS X),
> and it is not allowed on mine (Ubuntu, OpenMPI).  Should we check for
> the validity of -hosts and use it if so, or do we like Jed's grumpy
> anti-Mac solution? :)
> 
> Geoffrey