<div dir="ltr">I suggest to disable ~/.cactus/config, at least when Simfactory is used.<div><br></div><div>-erik</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Ian Hinder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ian.hinder@aei.mpg.de" target="_blank">ian.hinder@aei.mpg.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi,<div><br></div><div>If there is a ~/.cactus/config file, and you also specify options=… to make, how is Cactus supposed to respond? Does it merge the content of the two files, or take one over the other? I suspect that it is merging them. In that case, I think simfactory should complain very loudly if there is a ~/.cactus/config file, as the options you are using will be a mixture of the optionlist configured for the machine and the one in ~/.cactus/config. I'm still dubious about the benefit of having ~/.cactus/config. I think it is used rarely enough by the main developers that it probably isn't tested well, and issues like this tend to get overlooked.</div>
<div><br></div><div>One example of where this causes confusion is if you have MPI = … in ~/.cactus/config, and MPI_DIR = in your optionlist. The MPI thorn complains about MPI being set even though it isn't set in your optionlist, so the error message makes no sense to the user.</div>
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<div>-- </div><div>Ian Hinder</div><div><a href="http://numrel.aei.mpg.de/people/hinder" target="_blank">http://numrel.aei.mpg.de/people/hinder</a></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></span>
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