[petsc-dev] broken nightlybuilds (next vs next-tmp)

[Jed Brown]

Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> writes:

>>   origin/jed/variadic-malloc
>
> http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/nightlylogs/archive/2017/11/11/filtered-make_next-tmp_arch-mswin-uni_ps4.log
> C:\cygwin64\home\petsc\PETSC~3.CLO\src\vec\is\utils\vsectionis.c(2380): warning C4090: 'function': different 'const' qualifiers
> C:\cygwin64\home\petsc\PETSC~3.CLO\src\vec\is\utils\vsectionis.c(2606): warning C4090: 'function': different 'const' qualifiers
> C:\cygwin64\home\petsc\PETSC~3.CLO\src\vec\is\utils\vsectionis.c(2607): warning C4090: 'function': different 'const' qualifiers
>
> ba282f5049c3dd2597cd524ca34c2e083b215a41 is the first bad commit
> commit ba282f5049c3dd2597cd524ca34c2e083b215a41
> Author: Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org>
> Date:   Sun Sep 10 21:40:14 2017 -0600
>
> Jed, Can you take a look at this? Also is this branch destined for maint?

Fixed.  No, not for 'maint' because this type handling for arrays of
pointers to constant data is not backward compatible.  Also would
prevent a build with petsc-3.8.3 headers from running with an installed
libpetsc.so.3.8.2.