On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > >> How do you map the loops in some of the shell scripts in the makefiles? >> > > Not all the loop constructs are parsed now, but I can add that in an hour > or so. It'll look like > > with Executable('ex19.c'): > for mtype in 'aij baij sbaij'.split(): > for vecscatter in 'rsend ssend alltoall'.split(): > Test(id=('thename', mtype, vecscatter), args='-mat_type %s > -vecscatter_%s' % (mtype,vecscatter), compare='ex19_thename') > This cannot yet do what I need for ex62. I have a 'setup' directive that executes code before the test. I like this done for sets of tests to save time. Matt > This registers "separate tests" for each, but they all compare against the > same reference output. We can then run this group by globbing > > ./ptest.py test 'ex19_thename_*' > > or a single one by > > ./ptest.py test ex19_thename_baij_ssend > > >> Where are your magic scripts? >> > > I was just mirroring the makefiles, so src/ts/examples/tutorials/makefile > was parsed and converted to src/ts/examples/tutorials/ptest.py (not a great > name since it also says how to build executables). > > >> What if I proposed moving the Test(id='2', args='-da_grid_x 20 >> -da_grid_y 20 -boundary 0 -ts_max_steps 10 -Jtype 2', compare='ex15_1') >> type data into the examples and generating the makefiles for the example >> directories automatically? Then we'd have one set of scripts that could >> scarf info from the examples and it would put it into several formats. >> > > We could do this, but (especially if we are making something for users), > there can be different ways to link based on configuration tests. Also, > applications may use many sources. Putting that information inside whatever > file contains main() is clutter, in my opinion, and harder to see what is > going on. Of course the code that figures out what needs to be done (by > looking in all the various places) could have nice output of what was > happening and why, but I think it's no simpler. > -- 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/20120917/486dfeca/attachment.html>