[petsc-dev] builds of PETSc based packages should not get their own secret files

[Jose E. Roman]

slepc4py source is not yet included in SLEPc source, but this will be done soon.
Jose


> El 5 ene 2021, a las 8:30, Barry Smith <bsmith at petsc.dev> escribió:
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>   Thanks.
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>    I'd like to move to also building the python bindings for both PETSc and SLEPc by default in the future.  Gives better testing and makes it easier for users who shouldn't need to worry about adding obscure options to get the python bindings built. Users should be able to turn off python bindings as opposed to having to turn them on.
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>    Barry
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>> On Jan 5, 2021, at 1:05 AM, Pierre Jolivet <pierre at joliv.et> wrote:
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>>> On 5 Jan 2021, at 1:33 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at petsc.dev> wrote:
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>>>  For packages that are built after PETSc configure (and or install is done) slepc, hpddm etc we've traditional saved the output  in its own file stashed away somewhere. 
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>>>  For the CI this is driving me nuts because when they fail the output is essentially "lost" and thus it is impossible to determine what has gone wrong. 
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>>>  I have started to directly output in the same stream as the PETSc compiles to make debugging much easier. Generally the packages are relatively small and don't have a huge amount of output when compiling correctly.  I did it for PETSc4py and SLEPc (slepc4py is a mystery yet how it get's hidden in slepc). 
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>> I guess we could change the redirect rule here https://gitlab.com/slepc/slepc/-/blob/master/config/packages/slepc4py.py#L53?
>> But we’d need to check whether slepc4py is built with --download-slepc --download-slepc-configure-arguments="--download-slepc4py” (inside PETSc) or simply --download-slepc4py (inside SLEPc).
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>> I’m in favour of having a single file because it can be quite nightmarish to ask users for multiple .log files hidden in different folders, but I can understand if we stick with the current approach as well.
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>> Thanks,
>> Pierre
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>>>  Are there any large downsides to this plan?
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>>>  Barry
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