[ET Trac] [Einstein Toolkit] #1667: ExternalLibraries/MPI should report error messages

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#1667: ExternalLibraries/MPI should report error messages
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  Reporter:  hinder  |       Owner:                     
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  new                
  Priority:  minor   |   Milestone:                     
 Component:  Cactus  |     Version:  development version
Resolution:          |    Keywords:  MPI                
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Comment (by hinder):

 In fact, the problem is likely that the Cactus configuration script
 mechanism by default swallows any unexpected errors.  Unless you
 explicitly wrap code with begin/end error etc, the error message is lost.
 This is poor design, as it means you have to proactively anticipate any
 possible error and write code to capture it and format it.  The Perl
 configuration script for MPI could maybe install some sort of error
 handling function which did this?  But this is over-engineering the
 solution in the configure script.   Cactus should handle this.

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