configuration question

[Satish Balay]

Can you verify if you have /usr/bin/diff.exe installed with your
cygwin installation?

Can you verify if you are using python from cygwin?

If you encounter problems - send the corresponding configure.log to
petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov

[note: configure.log is too big to be posted on a mailing-list - so
use the above e-mail]

Satish


On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Xiaoxu Wang wrote:

> sorry, the question I want to ask is
> 
> I got the following error when configuring Petsc,
> 'Configure' object has no attribute 'diff'  File "./config/configure.py", line
> 166, in petsc_configure
> when it runs to (out,err,status) = Configure.executeShellCommand(getattr(self,
> 'diff')+' -w diff1 diff2'), line 56 in programs.py.
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
>     When I comfiguring Petsc under Windows and Cygwin, it always crashes when
> it is checking for diff. The path is correct. It could be the difference
> between '\' and '\\' in python causing the problem. How to solve this problem?
> Or can I skip checking for 'diff'? Thank you for suggestions.
> 
> Xiaoxu
> 
>