Scott, In the branch barry/2021-11-04/add-dmplex-vecghost which was just rebased on main I get
/usr/local/opt/python@3.9/bin/python3.9 ./config/gmakegen.py --petsc-arch=arch-add-dmplex-vecghost /usr/local/opt/python@3.9/bin/python3.9 /Users/barrysmith/Src/petsc/config/gmakegentest.py --petsc-dir=/Users/barrysmith/Src/petsc --petsc-arch=arch-add-dmplex-vecghost --testdir=./arch-add-dmplex-vecghost/tests Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/barrysmith/Src/petsc/config/gmakegentest.py", line 1089, in <module> main(petsc_dir=opts.petsc_dir, petsc_arch=opts.petsc_arch, File "/Users/barrysmith/Src/petsc/config/gmakegentest.py", line 1060, in main dataDict=pEx.walktree(os.path.join(pEx.srcdir)) File "/Users/barrysmith/Src/petsc/config/gmakegentest.py", line 924, in walktree self.genPetscTests(root,dirs,files,dataDict) File "/Users/barrysmith/Src/petsc/config/gmakegentest.py", line 897, in genPetscTests dataDict[root].update(testparse.parseTestFile(fullex,0)) File "/Users/barrysmith/Src/petsc/config/testparse.py", line 542, in parseTestFile testDict[basename]=parseTests(testString,srcfile,fileNums,verbosity) File "/Users/barrysmith/Src/petsc/config/testparse.py", line 498, in parseTests testnames,subdicts=parseTest(test,srcfile,verbosity) File "/Users/barrysmith/Src/petsc/config/testparse.py", line 426, in parseTest if not var in acceptedkeys: raise Exception("Keyword: "+var+" from: "+line+" is not valid") Exception: Keyword: redirect_file from: redirect_file: ex1_1.tmp is not valid make: *** [gmakefile.test:97: arch-add-dmplex-vecghost/tests/testfiles] Error 1 How to track down the problem? Is it due to a bad rule from some file (which file, could that be printed?)