On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> > in compilers.py it logs and error message but keeps on running if the C > libraries cannot be used from Fortran. Why is this? It seems totally insane, > it just delays the error until later when it is confusing and unclear what > the problem is. Is there a DAMN good reason I shouldn't fix this? > I believe we did this because 1) PETSc itself does not require it. We do all the linking with C 2) Some Fortran linkers refused to handle the C libraries and we had not work around By failing, we would have prevented some user from enjoying his perversely isolationist Fortran compiler. Matt > Barry > -- 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20091209/d0367c41/attachment.html>