On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Matthew Knepley wrote: > > Matt is the one with vision about BuildSystem dependencies so I'll leave > > it to him to comment. > > > I see fooling with dependencies as a good thing in general to simplify > things, but having not > much to do with what Jed wants. We can easily buffer till kingdom come. > > What needs to be done is to overload write() for the logger, so that if no > file is open it buffers, > and then when a file is set, the contents get dumped in.
The issue is: if there is an error in configure thats relavent [for which we want the user to send us configure.log from the predetermined location] - but this error happens before the 'file is set' i.e before PETSC_ARCH is determined. Satish
