[petsc-dev] Unused macros in petscconf.h

[Matthew Knepley]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 4:37 PM Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:

> Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 2:04 PM Smith, Barry F. via petsc-dev <
> > petsc-dev at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>   You are right, these do not belong in petscconf.h
> >>
> >
> > The problematic thing here is hiding information from users of
> > PETSc. If you are a user that counts on PETSc configure to check
> > something, but then we hide it because we do not use it, I would not
> > be happy.
>
> You want PETSc to test things that it doesn't use because maybe a user
> would want to know?  Where does that end


Very clearly it ends with testing the things users SPECIFICALLY ASKED US TO
TEST
on the configure command line.


> and how would we ever know if
> the information is correct?
>

This is just nonsensical. We know its correct because we tested it.

   Matt

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