On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 11:57 AM Barry Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> > What does Windows use for a path separator? > semicolon Maybe we could use either one as a separator, since semicolon is also used by the UNIX shell. Matt > On Nov 22, 2021, at 11:19 AM, Satish Balay via petsc-users < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Well our build tools use cygwin - but the library is built with MS/Intel > compilers - they use paths in windows notation. > > I'm not sure if there is a way to get windows PATHs without ':' > > Satish > > On Mon, 22 Nov 2021, Matthew Knepley wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 10:36 AM Milan Pelletier < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Matt, > Thanks for the answer. I could fix my issue regarding unbalanced events - > and so SNES ex5 does work well too. > By the way, such imbalance does not trigger errors when log_view is using > plain ascii output, but it does fail when ascii_xml is used instead. > > > Yes, we have a "failsafe" for the regular logging, but the XML is > specifically hierarchical and we do not know how to close it. We could take > another look at that. > > > Unfortunately, regarding absolute paths, I had also tried to use cygwin > paths (`/cygdrive/c/...`) but that does not work either. > > > Hmm, that should work I think. Satish, do we have a machine to login and > test something like this? > > Thanks, > > Matt > > > Best, > Milan > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > Le lundi 22 novembre 2021 à 2:39 PM, Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> > a écrit : > > On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 5:38 AM Milan Pelletier via petsc-users < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Dear PETSc team, > > The way some options are passed to PETSc can be an issue on Windows, in > particular regarding the "log_view" option. > Since the colon ':' character is used as a separator, I do not see how > absolute paths should be provided on Windows (since the drive name includes > a colon). Is there a trick / workaround to overcome this? > > > I thought we used Cygwin paths, but maybe one of the Windows people knows > better. > > > Besides, when I try to use the ascii_xml format, it crashes in file > xmllogevent.c, on line 751: > illegalEvent = 1+nestedEvents[nNestedEvents-1].nstEvent; > (since nestedEvents is NULL). > > > This likely means that you have unbalanced events. I can run this on > examples. For instance does SNES ex5 work for you? > > Thanks, > > Matt > > > I'm using PETSc version 3.16.1 (using `git checkout tags/v3.16.1`). > > Thanks for your help, > Best regards, > Milan Pelletier > > > > -- > 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 > > https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/ > <http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/> > > > -- 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 https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/ <http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/>
