[petsc-dev] nightly build problems because dependencies are not properly listed in tests!

Barry Smith bsmith at mcs.anl.gov
Sun Feb 26 21:57:25 CST 2017


#	[0]PETSC ERROR: Mesh generation needs external package support.
#	Please reconfigure with --download-triangle.

is appearing in a bunch of nightly build errors

http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/nightlylogs/archive/2017/02/26/examples_full_next.log

Please make sure you list all package dependencies in your test cases before pushing a branch to next. Though Jonathan Shewchuk is a god of programming this does not mean that triangle is always installed on all computers at birth. You waste everybody's time by not handling these basics before pushing to next, plus you slow down the process of moving your branch to master.


  Barry





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