[petsc-dev] [Suggestion] Configure QOL Improvements

[Matthew Knepley]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 4:59 PM Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:

> Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > That is an unreliable check for Z. You would not eliminate the case
> > where you give --with-Z, but the check fails, so Z is not available,
> > but you do not find out until checking X or Y.
>
> You can verify that Z works in a fraction of a second, but building X
> may take minutes.  Work bottom up, verify everything that is given
> before building anything.
>

That is exactly what we do now. What are you talking about?

  Matt

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