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

Tobin Isaac tisaac at uchicago.edu
Mon Feb 27 09:06:54 CST 2017


On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 09:57:25PM -0600, Barry Smith wrote:
> 
> #	[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.
> 

Good advice, but the specific problem here is win32fe + intel
compilers wants to mixup the executables between directories.  Satish
and I have had a thread on this.

> 
>   Barry
> 
> 
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