[petsc-users] configure crash

[Satish Balay]

On Fri, 14 Jun 2013, Dharmendar Reddy wrote:

> Hello,
>          I get the Following error when i use ctetgen: (have a look at the
> attached log file, i copied a snippet here).

Perhaps ctetgen would work with compilex. [Matt can confirm]. You can
do the following to enable it.

diff --git a/config/PETSc/packages/ctetgen.py b/config/PETSc/packages/ctetgen.py
index 71ec5e6..f09d952 100644
--- a/config/PETSc/packages/ctetgen.py
+++ b/config/PETSc/packages/ctetgen.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ class Configure(PETSc.package.NewPackage):
     self.functions         = []
     self.includes          = []
     self.liblist           = [['libctetgen.a']]
+    self.complex           = 1
     self.compileCtetgen    = 0
     return


> Also, metis and parametis give
> error when i configure with scalar-type=complex.

It should work. What error do you get? Send logs.

Satish

> I was using MUMPS which
> requires either parmetis or pt-scotch. I was able to cinfigure with
> ptscotch. At this point, i am just seting up my code, an i do not know
> which combination for direct solver will give a good result. I was hoping
> to configure with the required packages and then experiment.
> *******************************************************************************
>          UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS    (see configure.log for
> details):
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Cannot use ctetgen with complex numbers it is not coded for this capability
> *******************************************************************************
>   File "./config/configure.py", line 293, in petsc_configure
>     framework.configure(out = sys.stdout)
>   File
> "/home1/00924/Reddy135/LocalApps/petsc/config/BuildSystem/config/framework.py",
> line 933, in configure
>     child.configure()
>   File
> "/home1/00924/Reddy135/LocalApps/petsc/config/BuildSystem/config/package.py",
> line 552, in configure
>     self.consistencyChecks()
>   File "/home1/00924/Reddy135/LocalApps/petsc/config/PETSc/package.py",
> line 38, in consistencyChecks
>     raise RuntimeError('Cannot use '+self.name+' with complex numbers it is
> not coded for this capability')
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 13 Jun 2013, Dharmendar Reddy wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >           I rerun the configure, it works. I had to remove the ctetgen,
> > > metis and parametis
> >
> > I don't unserstand why you had to remove them.
> >
> > > Is there documentation on dependencies for external
> > > packages ? If not, it will be useful to have a required package list for
> > a
> > > given external package.
> >
> > its currently documented in the appropriate .py file for that package.
> > [and if the dependency is missing - you get a configure error]
> >
> > Satish
> >
> 
> 
> 
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