[petsc-dev] Globsearch fails for me when running tests

[Jed Brown]

Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> writes:

>> > IIRC, the $(file ...) function does not work with stock make in macOS.
>>
>> You're right; that is a make 4.0 feature.  But developers who need
>> globsearch should have the ability to evade Apple's anti-GNU smear.
>>
>
> Do we really have to make things hard on Mac to use something I use every
> day hundreds of times?

Are you still using make-3.81?  Do you also use an Apple Newton?

You can still use search and searchin.

Scott can implement globsearch to call Python that calls make print-test
(listing tests on stdout) and returns the result on stdout.  But it
can't pass the list all the tests on the command line.