[Yt-dev] libconfig wrapper testing

Britton Smith brittonsmith at gmail.com
Sun Jan 30 16:19:26 PST 2011


Hi Matt,

I just tried this on my OSX 10.6 laptop and on TACC Ranger, and it worked
fine for both.

Britton

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Excellent, thanks!  I'm going to keep testing it on a few more
> machines I have access to, but I think this will be workable, and that
> when the time comes I can flip the switch so that it gets built.
>
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Chris Malone <chris.m.malone at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Matt,
> >
> > Sorry, that is what I was doing, but I was doing it in yt/utilities/
> instead
> > of the main yt directory!  There was no output and I was perplexed...
> >
> > Anyhow, I installed on my FC9 machine without problems.  I did, however,
> > receive the same warnings as Jeff.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Chris,
> >>
> >> Once you switch the install flag and re-run
> >>
> >> python2.6 setup.py build_ext -i
> >>
> >> you should then be able to do:
> >>
> >> python2.6 -c "import yt.utilities.libconfig_wrapper"
> >>
> >> If there's an import error, it has failed.  I shoudl also have
> >> mentioned, it's useful to know what kind of system (or if it's a
> >> supercomputer resource) it succeeds/fails on.
> >>
> >> Thanks, and sorry for the confusion,
> >>
> >> Matt
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Chris Malone <chris.m.malone at gmail.com
> >
> >> wrote:
> >> > Sorry for my ignorance, but what exactly needs to be rebuilt?  I
> pulled
> >> > and
> >> > updated from hg, but I'm not sure what I need to do (outside of
> changing
> >> > the
> >> > install flag) to test this...
> >> >
> >> > Chris
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com
> >
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi all,
> >> >>
> >> >> I've added a wrapper for libconfig, along with a slightly modified
> >> >> version of the (LGPL'd, credits and license all included) libconfig
> >> >> source itself, to the current development tip.  (The modification is
> >> >> to force all integers to be read as 64-bit.)  By default it is turned
> >> >> off, because of an issue with locale setting for reading/writing
> >> >> floating point values.
> >> >>
> >> >> If I could get a few people, next time they update, to open up
> >> >> yt/utilities/setup.py and change:
> >> >>
> >> >> INSTALL_LIBCONFIG_WRAPPER = 0
> >> >>
> >> >> to
> >> >>
> >> >> INSTALL_LIBCONFIG_WRAPPER = 1
> >> >>
> >> >> and just see if it builds, that would be extremely helpful.  The
> issue
> >> >> here is that it's not clear to me if the file "xlocale.h" is going to
> >> >> be present on all systems; I've located it on all of the systems I've
> >> >> tested on so far, but that is not many.  If it doesn't work for you,
> >> >> that'd be really good to know.  Worse comes to worse and we can
> >> >> disable the locale code completely, but that worries me a bit.
> >> >>
> >> >> I'm in the process of documenting how to use the libconfig wrapper,
> >> >> but for the next few days it's not being used by anything in yt.
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks for any testing ...
> >> >>
> >> >> -Matt
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