[petsc-users] Issues with log_view on windows

[Satish Balay]

Well our build tools use cygwin - but the library is built with MS/Intel compilers - they use paths in windows notation.

I'm not sure if there is a way to get windows PATHs without ':' 

Satish

On Mon, 22 Nov 2021, Matthew Knepley wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 10:36 AM Milan Pelletier <
> milan.pelletier at protonmail.com> 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.
> >
> 
> Yes, we have a "failsafe" for the regular logging, but the XML is
> specifically hierarchical and we do not know how to close it. We could take
> another look at that.
> 
> 
> > Unfortunately, regarding absolute paths, I had also tried to use cygwin
> > paths (`/cygdrive/c/...`) but that does not work either.
> >
> 
> Hmm, that should work I think. Satish, do we have a machine to login and
> test something like this?
> 
>   Thanks,
> 
>      Matt
> 
> 
> > 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> 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
> >>
> >>
> >
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> >
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> >
> 
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