[petsc-users] Issues with log_view on windows

[Matthew Knepley]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 11:57 AM Barry Smith <bsmith at petsc.dev> wrote:

>
>   What does Windows use for a path separator?
>

semicolon

Maybe we could use either one as a separator, since semicolon is also used
by the UNIX shell.

   Matt


> On Nov 22, 2021, at 11:19 AM, Satish Balay via petsc-users <
> petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov> 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
>
>
>
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