On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> What's going on?? My guess was that BuildSystem is not prepared for >> Spanish words :-) > > What a good guess this is exactly right. I will patch BuildSystem-dev now. >
Any chance you can patch BuildSystem for release 3.0.0? Though that could be problematic, depending on the patch... What are you going to do to fix the issue? >> >> I asked the guy to start the whole process again, but this time begin >> doing: >> >> $ export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 >> >> and now things worked out of the box... >> >> Is this ?issue documented somewhere? There is anything we can do to >> improve this? What is the minimal Python version BuildSystem should >> require? Scanning stdout/stderr for guessing failures is really >> fragile... > > You would think, but its not nearly as fragile as trusting a stupid > compiler. Compiler > people are the most stubborn jackasses in computing. They refuse to consider > anything > but > > ? 1) command line input > > ? 2) screen message output > > Why bother with APIs when you can have text? No compiler that I know of > produces > error codes for warnings, including gcc, so we have no way other than > scanning the > output to determine what options are valid (certainly not an interface call > for this). > After working on this stuff for a few years, I really really hate people who > build compilers. > Some more than others, but all of them are bad. OK.. I certainly did not know about this... > > ?Thanks for letting me have my rant time this morning, > You are welcome ;-) ... -- Lisandro Dalc?n --------------- Centro Internacional de M?todos Computacionales en Ingenier?a (CIMEC) Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnol?gico para la Industria Qu?mica (INTEC) Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient?ficas y T?cnicas (CONICET) PTLC - G?emes 3450, (3000) Santa Fe, Argentina Tel/Fax: +54-(0)342-451.1594
