[petsc-users] petsc externalpackage directory

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Xiangdong <epscodes at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2 Feb 2016, Barry Smith wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > > On Feb 2, 2016, at 9:21 AM, Xiangdong <epscodes at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > the package is untar and compiled in $PETSC_ARCH/externalpackages,
>> but the original tarball .tar file is deleted. Is it correct?
>> >
>> >    Yes
>> >
>> >   When you ran the successful configure it printed to the screen where
>> the tar file came from. You should use curl or wget to get the tarball and
>> then copy it over to the machine you want it on.
>>
>>
>> Or you can copy the whole '$PETSC_ARCH/externalpackages' dir over to
>> this other machine [and place in the same location - for any
>> PETSC_ARCH you plan to use..]
>>
>
> If I have 15 packages to install, this method would be easy. Once I copied
> this folder to the new machine, do I use
> --with-pastix-dir=$PETSC_ARCH/externalpackages/pastix_5.2  or
> --download-pastix=$PETSC_ARCH/externalpackages/pastix_5.2? The first may
> fail due to the different libraries installed on that machine. For the
> second one, can --download-pastix take the directory path instead of the
> tarball file?
>

Just use the regular --download-* options. It will find the downloaded
packages and rebuild them.

  Matt


> Thanks.
>
> Xiangdong
>
>>
>> Satish
>>
>
>


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