On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> > Matt, > > It looks like the tests of nvcc are incomplete? That is it checks that > the nvcc compiler works but does not check if the the resulting .o can be > linked successfully. That is it never checks linking of a nvcc compiled > thing??[see attached file: configure.log] > > I think this is wrong. See the attached configure.log it claims that > nvcc works but then conks out when checking the cuda version (because it > cannot link a nvcc program). This is the wrong place to conk out and > misleading message to user. It should conk when checking linking of nvcc > program with a useful error message about not being able to link. > http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/BuildSystem/annotate/7fc6b5eafc08/config/setCompilers.py#l415 Matt > Thanks > > 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/20120423/2f95b7bf/attachment.html>
