On Aug 30, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Jed Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 14:01, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> Make sure you rm ${PETSC_ARCH}/conf/prometheus before running. Removing the
> external package is not enough to force a rebuild.
>
> Yeah, I suspect this was the issue because I fresh build worked fine for me.
>
> How about --download-package=rebuild actually rebuilding the package and then
> setting plain --download-package in reconfigure-arch.py? Then maybe
> --rebuild-externalpackages apply the same stunt to all --download packages?
>
First he made the reasonable suggestion of adding feature a, then since that
worked feature b, then why not c and d, by the time he got to q they were
draining in complexity, nobody understood the software anymore and random
things broke all the time.
Barry
> It's lame to have to delete these package files manually and there isn't even
> a nice way to glob them.
>
