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

[Denis Davydov]

Thanks Barry, I can confirm that an adaptation of your patch to 3.7.5 allows to compile PETSc.

Regads,
Denis.


> On 29 Mar 2017, at 06:23, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> 
>  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.