[petsc-dev] broke configure removed config.guess and config.sub

[Satish Balay]

Mat,

Since ftp is working but not http - as a workarround you could try for eg:

./configure --download-f-blas-lapack=ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/externalpackages/f2cblaslapack-3.1.1.a.tar.gz

Satish

On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Matthew Knepley wrote:

> How about lighting a fire under those fuckers at systems so I can
> reconfigure? FTP has
> been down all day.
> 
>    Matt
> 
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> >
> >   Matt and everyone
> >
> >    I have intentionally partly broken configure by removing ALL traces of
> > the use of the two horrible horrible bash shell scripts config.guess and
> > config.sub that should have been removed a decade ago and make configure
> > work only on Unix.
> >
> >   This will break sharedLibraries.py that used hostOSBase which computed
> > using host_os and TetGen.py and Triangle.py that for some strange reason
> > also use it. Best to get rid of hostOSbase completely and do proper tests
> > for different ways of making shared libraries.  Until this is fixed
> > sharedlibraries won't work.
> >
> >   Please report or fix all problems that come up ASAP.
> >
> >   Barry
> >
> > Yes be pissed at me for ruining your day, but I'm finally lighting the fire
> > under bad configure practices that make it only work on Unix. Cygwin usage
> > must die!
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
>