[petsc-users] Issues with log_view on windows

[Barry Smith]

> On Nov 22, 2021, at 10:36 AM, Milan Pelletier via petsc-users <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> Matt,
> Thanks for the answer. I could fix my issue regarding unbalanced events - and so SNES ex5 does work well too.
> By the way, such imbalance does not trigger errors when log_view is using plain ascii output, but it does fail when ascii_xml is used instead.
> 
> Unfortunately, regarding absolute paths, I had also tried to use cygwin paths (`/cygdrive/c/...`) but that does not work either.

  What is the symptom of the failure, could you provide all the output printed and tell us what goes wrong.
> 
> Best,
> Milan
> 
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> Le lundi 22 novembre 2021 à 2:39 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> a écrit :
>> On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 5:38 AM Milan Pelletier via petsc-users <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov <mailto:petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov>> wrote:
>> Dear PETSc team,
>> 
>> The way some options are passed to PETSc can be an issue on Windows, in particular regarding the "log_view" option.
>> Since the colon ':' character is used as a separator, I do not see how absolute paths should be provided on Windows (since the drive name includes a colon). Is there a trick / workaround to overcome this?
>> 
>> I thought we used Cygwin paths, but maybe one of the Windows people knows better.
>>  
>> Besides, when I try to use the ascii_xml format, it crashes in file xmllogevent.c, on line 751:
>>   illegalEvent = 1+nestedEvents[nNestedEvents-1].nstEvent;
>> (since nestedEvents is NULL).
>> 
>> This likely means that you have unbalanced events. I can run this on examples. For instance does SNES ex5 work for you?
>> 
>>   Thanks,
>> 
>>      Matt
>>  
>> I'm using PETSc version 3.16.1 (using `git checkout tags/v3.16.1`).
>> 
>> Thanks for your help,
>> Best regards,
>> Milan Pelletier
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.
>> -- Norbert Wiener
>> 
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> 

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