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Re: Libtool error reporting.


From: Shamis, Pavel
Subject: Re: Libtool error reporting.
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 09:38:06 -0500

Peter,

Did you have a chance to look at the patch. Please let me know if you have some 
comments.
I found it extremely useful for debug of module component architecture, that 
loads modules on the "fly".

Regards,

Pavel (Pasha) Shamis
---
Application Performance Tools Group
Computer Science and Math Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory






On Dec 8, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Shamis, Pavel wrote:

> Peter,
> 
> Actually, I already have a patch. Please see attached file. It is very 
> simple, if module opening fails, in addition to "Failed" message, it prints 
> out last error message. 
> So far it is only a spot where I found useful to add verbose error reporting.
> 
> <libtool_debug_error_reporting.patch>
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Pavel (Pasha) Shamis
> ---
> Application Performance Tools Group
> Computer Science and Math Division
> Oak Ridge National Laboratory
> 
> On Dec 8, 2011, at 12:19 AM, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> 
>> On 12/05/2011 11:48 AM, Shamis, Pavel wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> As have been mentioned on the list, libtool error reporting - "file not 
>>> found" is not perfect. People suggested to fix it 
>>> (hxxp://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg12156.html) but it seems, 
>>> that the changes have never been incorporated into the trunk. I'm not well 
>>> familiar with all the details of the problem, but I would suggest to 
>>> improve the debug mode (-DLT_DEBUG_LOADERS) verbose messaging. Libtool 
>>> already prints "Success/Failed", so I suggest to extend the message and  
>>> print out the last error (LT__GETERROR(error)) for the Failed case.
>> 
>> This seems like a good idea (if DEBUG_LOADERS is defined, print the 
>> error to stderr every time an error is set). If you don't come up with a 
>> patch, I'll try to find the time to do it.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Peter
>> 
>> 
> 
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