[petsc-users] Issues with log_view on windows

[Satish Balay]

I think one use case where ':' can be avoided with absolute path is -  - if currently on the same drive


Satish

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C:\cygwin64\home\balay>dir \
 Volume in drive C is OS
 Volume Serial Number is 30F3-283B

 Directory of C:\

05/11/2021  07:19 AM    <DIR>          cygwin64
04/02/2021  06:29 PM    <DIR>          dell
11/22/2021  07:59 AM    <DIR>          Intel
12/07/2019  01:14 AM    <DIR>          PerfLogs
11/03/2021  06:03 AM    <DIR>          Program Files      
04/10/2021  08:11 AM    <DIR>          Program Files (x86)
09/10/2021  01:24 PM    <DIR>          Users
11/09/2021  07:13 PM    <DIR>          Windows
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               8 Dir(s)  87,535,738,880 bytes free        

C:\cygwin64\home\balay>dir \cygwin64
 Volume in drive C is OS
 Volume Serial Number is 30F3-283B

 Directory of C:\cygwin64

05/11/2021  07:19 AM    <DIR>          .
05/11/2021  07:19 AM    <DIR>          ..
09/10/2021  12:24 PM    <DIR>          bin
04/02/2021  05:45 PM            53,342 Cygwin-Terminal.ico
05/11/2021  07:19 AM                88 Cygwin.bat
04/02/2021  05:45 PM           157,097 Cygwin.ico
04/02/2021  05:45 PM    <DIR>          dev
09/10/2021  12:23 PM    <DIR>          etc
09/10/2021  01:24 PM    <DIR>          home
09/10/2021  12:23 PM    <DIR>          lib
04/02/2021  05:45 PM    <DIR>          sbin
11/22/2021  08:33 AM    <DIR>          tmp
09/10/2021  12:23 PM    <DIR>          usr
04/02/2021  07:40 PM    <DIR>          var
               3 File(s)        210,527 bytes
              11 Dir(s)  87,535,652,864 bytes free        

C:\cygwin64\home\balay>




On Mon, 22 Nov 2021, Satish Balay via petsc-users wrote:

> 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
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > > --
> > > 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
> > >
> > > https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/
> > > <http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > 
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