Re: configure problem

[Wendy Palm]

Larry Jones wrote:

> Wendy Palm writes:
>
> > our pre-processor is writing the error messages to stdout
> > instead of stderr, so the followon grep isn't finding the messages.
>
> Egad, how could the highly-intelligent compiler folks at Cray and their
> minions make such a bone-headed mistake?  The preprocessed output goes
> to stdout; having the error messages go to the same place and thus
> getting mixed in with it is -- how shall I say it? -- extremely


the new machine has a very different programming environment, and part of
the difference melded the stderr into the stdout.  i'm just really surprised
no one caught it til now.  we actually caught it while doing some posix testing
a couple of days ago, so i was able to take advantage of someone else's
report.  the fix is going in this morning.

> inconvenient.  Of course, returning a successful completion status when
> serious errors have occurred is also more than a little inconvenient.


well, they are only warning messages, so a 0 exit status is warranted (the
c99 standards don't specify what the exit status should be in this case).

now if i can just get this remote test stuff figured out....



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wendy palm
Cray OS Sustaining Engineering, Cray Inc.
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