[petsc-dev] Petsc-dev compilation: error because of underscore.

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
>  You don't need ANY priveleges to install mercurial.
>
>   Satish, please verify that the tarball contains the right up to date
> BuildSystem.
>
>   I changed all the sizeof_xxx crap to the proper sizeof-xxx in types.py
> when I made the updates to this weeks ago.
>

Its not that. It is the pointer that is the problem. We translate it to
void_p.

  Matt


>   Barry
>
>
> On Jan 26, 2010, at 6:10 PM, Vijay S. Mahadevan wrote:
>
>  I do not have mercurial installed on my cluster and do not have the
>> priveleges to do so now. I used the tarball for petsc-dev from the
>> link in the site. Just do let me know if the tarball will contain this
>> update. Or if it is not too much trouble, I would appreciate it if you
>> can send me a patch.
>>
>> Either way, do let me know which option will work for my situation.
>> Thanks.
>> Vijay
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Pull PETSc and try again.
>>>
>>>  Matt
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Vijay S. Mahadevan <vijay.m at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm  trying to install the development copy of Petsc in a linux
>>>> cluster. The configuration proceeded fine until I had to run conftest
>>>> for the batch system. After running conftest in a node and then
>>>> running reconfigure on the main node, I get the following error.
>>>>
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>  File "./reconfigure.py", line 25, in ?
>>>>  configure.petsc_configure(configure_options)
>>>>  File "/emchome/vijaysm/soft/petsc-3.0-dev/config/configure.py", line
>>>> 150, in petsc_configure
>>>>  check_for_option_mistakes(sys.argv)
>>>>  File "/emchome/vijaysm/soft/petsc-3.0-dev/config/configure.py", line
>>>> 33, in check_for_option_mistakes
>>>>  raise ValueError('The option '+name+' should probably be
>>>> '+name.replace('_', '-'));
>>>> ValueError: The option --known-sizeof-void_p should probably be
>>>> --known-sizeof-void-p
>>>>
>>>> I could not find the location where "--known-sizeof-" is read from or
>>>> else I could've tried to change this and reconfigure petsc. Do let me
>>>> know if there is a fix for this.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> Vijay
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
>>> experiments
>>> is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
>>> experiments
>>> lead.
>>> -- Norbert Wiener
>>>
>>>
>


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is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments
lead.
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