[petsc-users] [3.7.5] strange config error on macOS with XCode 8.3 and Clang 8.1.0

[Barry Smith]

  I have added the commit https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/commits/4f290403fdd060d09d5cb07345cbfd52670e3cbc  to the maint, master and next branch that allows ./configure to to go through in this situation.  If the change does not break other tests it will be included in the next patch release.

   Thanks for reporting the problem,

     Barry

This patch does not directly deal with the problem (which i don't understand but seems to be an Apple Xcode problem) but works around the problem on my machine.



> On Mar 28, 2017, at 4:31 PM, Denis Davydov <davydden at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> @Satish
> 
> please find the log attached:
> 
> 
> @Matt
> 
> >> but then you are responsible for putting any compiler libraries in LIBS
> >> that we needed to make Fortran and C work together.
> 
> hopefully we can find another solution to this issue.
> 
> 
> @Bary
> 
> Thanks for trying to reproduce the issue, if you will be trying Spack, be aware that you need to do:
> 
>   ncurses:
>     version: [6.0]
>     paths:
>       ncurses at 6.0: /usr
>     buildable: False
>   openblas:
>     version: [develop] 
>   python:
>     version: [2.7.10]
>     paths:
>       python at 2.7.10: /usr
>     buildable: False
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Denis
> 
> <configure.log.zip>