[petsc-users] compilation error of petsc-3.2-p7 with metis

[Satish Balay]

On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Kyunghoon Lee wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Kyunghoon Lee <aeronova.mailing at gmail.com
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I configured petsc-3.2-p7 with the following options:
> >>
> >> ./configure
> >> --prefix=/Users/aeronova/Development/local/lib64/petsc/petsc-3.2-p7
> >> --download-mpich=1 --download-blacs=1 --download-parmetis=1
> >> --download-metis=1 --download-scalapack=1 --download-mumps=1
> >> --download-umfpack=1 --with-clanguage=C++
> >>
> >
> > Possibly a stale package file in externalpackages/.
> >
> > But you should upgrade to petsc-3.3 before bothering more with this. It
> > has metis-5.0 which fixes many critical bugs.
> >
> 
> Thank you for the reply.  I checked the metis directory in
> externalpackages, but there is no file named "state":
> 
> CHANGES                Graphs/                Lib/
> Makefile.in            VERSION
> Doc/                   INSTALL                METISLib/
> Programs/              arch-darwin-cxx-debug/
> FILES                  LICENSE                Makefile
> Test/                  make.inc
> 
> Re petsc-3.3, I need to check its compatibility with libmesh, since I need
> petsc mainly for libmesh.

you don't need --download-metis for petsc-3.2 [--download-parmetis=1
installs metis for you]

[--download-metis=1 is broken in petsc-3.2. Also petsc-3.2 doesn't directly use metis]

Satish