[petsc-dev] Supporting --download-hdf5 in Cygwin?

[Satish Balay]

Hm self.downloadonWindows is supposed to be for MS compilers only.

If thats not the case - the bug is somewere else..

satish

On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, Richard Tran Mills wrote:

> Matt,
> 
> I tried this and it works under 32-bit Cygwin.  It should also work under
> 64-bit Cygwin except that it hits an error when building the 'h5ls' target
> (can overcome this by telling make to ignore errors or by making a small patch
> to the relevant HDF5 code--this is a Cygwin64/HDF5 problem and has nothing to
> do with BuildSystem).
> 
> Can we go ahead and get this change into 'master' ASAP?  I am not sure of the
> proper workflow to use for such a small change as this.  I'd like
> --download-hdf5 to be working before I leave for Germany in a few days to do a
> short course there.
> 
> --Richard
> 
> On 10/4/13 5:45 PM, Matthew Knepley wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Richard Tran Mills <rtm at eecs.utk.edu
> > <mailto:rtm at eecs.utk.edu>> wrote:
> > 
> >     Hi Satish,
> > 
> >     I got this message attempting to use the Gnu compilers; that's all
> >     that I've got on this system.  Should I send the configure.log to
> >     petsc-maint?
> > 
> > 
> > Want to add
> > 
> >   self.downloadonWindows   = 1
> > 
> > to __init__ of config/BuildSystem/config/packages/hdf5.py and see if it
> > work?
> > 
> >   Thanks,
> > 
> >     Matt
> > 
> >     --Richard
> > 
> >     On 10/4/13 4:34 PM, Satish Balay wrote:
> > 
> >         On Fri, 4 Oct 2013, Richard Tran Mills wrote:
> > 
> >             Hi Folks,
> > 
> >             If I tell configure.py '--download-hdf5=1', I get a message
> >             that "External
> >             package hdf5 does not support --download-hdf5 on Microsoft
> >             Windows".  However,
> >             I just built HDF5 1.8.11 from source under 64-bit Cygwin
> >             and, except for one
> >             problem with building the 'h5ls' utility, it appears that
> >             this ought to work.
> >             Can we support this? And what is the procedure for changing
> >             package
> >             configuration info in BuildSystem these days?  These files
> >             show up in the
> >             'petsc' repo but there appears to be a 'buildsystem' repo on
> >             BitBucket as
> >             well; not sure what the relationship is between them.
> > 
> >         When you say 'Supporting --download-hdf5 in Cygwin' and refer to
> >         64-bit - you
> >         mean MS compilers or cygwin gcc/gfortran?
> > 
> >         The error message should come up only with MS compilers.
> > 
> >         Presumably --download-hdf5 should work with gnu compilers - if
> >         it doesn't - it
> >         probably needs some tweaking.
> > 
> >         Wrt repo - we now have a single git repo
> >         bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc <http://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc>
> >         where all petsc/buildsystem changes should go to.
> > 
> >         Satish
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > 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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