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+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+//
+// Copyright (C) 2013 - 2018 by the deal.II authors
+//
+// This file is part of the deal.II library.
+//
+// The deal.II library is free software; you can use it, redistribute
+// it, and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General
+// Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+// version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+// The full text of the license can be found in the file LICENSE.md at
+// the top level directory of deal.II.
+//
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+// AffineConstraints<double>::distribute() crashes because copy_from() is
+// incomplete:
+
+/**
+An error occurred in line <2679> of file
+</ssd/deal-git1/include/deal.II/lac/affine_constraints.templates.h> in function
+ void dealii::AffineConstraints<number>::distribute(VectorType&) const [with
+VectorType = dealii::LinearAlgebra::distributed::Vector<double>; number =
+double] The violated condition was: needed_elements_for_distribute != IndexSet()
+*/
+
+#include <deal.II/dofs/dof_tools.h>
+
+#include <deal.II/lac/la_parallel_block_vector.h>
+#include <deal.II/lac/la_parallel_vector.h>
+
+#include "../tests.h"
+
+
+
+void
+test()
+{
+ unsigned int myid = Utilities::MPI::this_mpi_process(MPI_COMM_WORLD);
+ unsigned int numproc = Utilities::MPI::n_mpi_processes(MPI_COMM_WORLD);
+
+ IndexSet owned(numproc);
+ owned.add_range(myid, myid + 1);
+ IndexSet relevant = complete_index_set(numproc);
+
+
+ AffineConstraints<double> cm(owned, relevant);
+ cm.add_line(0);
+ cm.close();
+
+ AffineConstraints<double> cm2;
+ cm2.copy_from(cm);
+
+ LinearAlgebra::distributed::Vector<double> x(owned, relevant, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
+
+ cm.distribute(x); // this works
+ cm2.distribute(x); // this used to fail
+ deallog << "OK" << std::endl;
+}
+
+
+int
+main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+ Utilities::MPI::MPI_InitFinalize mpi_initialization(argc, argv, 1);
+ MPILogInitAll log;
+
+ test();
+ return 0;
+}