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

[Scott Kruger]

Sorry for the delay.  Fixed in MR !2663.

It turns out that the *read* for $(file <...) did not occur until
gmake 4.2 so this bit me even on a (admittedly old) Linux dev box.
To enable the widest range of usage, I keep a modified version
of the current $(shell ...) usage, but have commented out the
gmake >4.2 solution for people who want the truly scalable
solution (e.g., globsearch='*').  The current fix should work
until dm, or other package,  gets to around 9K tests which seems to
be when globsearch failed.

The new solution uses an upgraded `config/query_tests.py` script
so is similar to the query/queryval functionality.

Scott



On 3/28/20 10:34 AM, Satish Balay via petsc-dev wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Mar 2020, Jed Brown wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>>
> 
> Configure has been printing this warning for a very long time - but its easily ignored..
> 
>                  ===============================================================================
>                      ***** WARNING: You have an older version of Gnu make, it will work,
>                      but may not support all the parallel testing options. You can install the
>                      latest Gnu make with your package manager, such as brew or macports, or use
>                      the --download-make option to get the latest Gnu make *****
>                  ===============================================================================
> 
> Satish
> 

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