[petsc-dev] Seeking OLCF users complaining about poor build times

[Matthew Knepley]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:

> Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> writes:
> > I just pushed an update for parallel configure (using only 2 threads
> right
> > now) to next. We will see if the
> > builds blow up.
>
> Hmm, the configure cases in 'next' are intended to succeed.  The hard
>

Me too ;)


> part of parallel configure is having understandable diagnostics on
> error.  How are you testing that?
>

I had it crash and the output looked mostly like it does now. There is one
thing
I would like to clean up. I catch all the same exception and generate the
banner,
but at the end now we always get the RuntimeError banner. I will define a
new
exception that is silent for the top level.

   Matt

-- 
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
experiments lead.
-- Norbert Wiener
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