One potential issue is - if the dir has spaces - as on windows.. Hence the need for quotes for -D__INSDIR__='directory'
satish On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Barry Smith wrote: > > Currently the macro variable __SDIR__ is defined in conf/variables with > quotes around it, passed to the compiler as -D__SDIR__="directory" and then > used in PETSc source code as a string. This works but is fragile to shells > removing various quotes before passing to the compiler. > > Lisandro suggested changing the model to use -D__INSDIR__=directory with no > quotes and then in petscerror.h have > #define PetscStringize(a) #a > #define __SDIR__ PetscStringize(__INSDIR__) > > Seems to work on my machine for C and C++ compilers so I am pushing to > petsc-dev. Please report problems ASAP. > > Barry >
