Re: Libtool error reporting.

[Peter O'Gorman]

I pushed this, sorry for the long delay, and thank you.

Peter

On 01/09/2012 08:38 AM, Shamis, Pavel wrote:
> Peter,
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> 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
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> Application Performance Tools Group
> Computer Science and Math Division
> Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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> On Dec 8, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Shamis, Pavel wrote:
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> > 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:
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> > > 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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