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<div dir="ltr">Alright, thanks for the quick response.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 2:47 PM Smith, Barry F. <<a href="mailto:bsmith@mcs.anl.gov">bsmith@mcs.anl.gov</a>> wrote:<br>
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Sorry. No PETSc can't install bison and flex and we won't add that capability<br>
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bison and flex are so standard that any standard distribution should either contain them or have an easy way to install them.<br>
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Perhaps you are working on a machine without bison and flex and you do not have sudo access. I suggest you email/talk to the sys admin for this machine and ask them to install these packages.<br>
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> On Jun 8, 2018, at 1:42 PM, Shashwat Sharma <<a href="mailto:shash_91@hotmail.com" target="_blank">shash_91@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hello,<br>
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> I'm using a Petsc installation along with the external package superLU_dist. As per the instructions on the online documentation, I am letting Petsc take care of the download and installation at the configure stage.<br>
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> SuperLU requires that I also download and install parMeTiS and PTScotch, which I can readily do the same way. However, those packages in turn require certain other packages to have been preinstalled, namely GNU bison and flex.<br>
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> The issue is that I have to make sure bison and flex are pre-installed globally (with sudo rights) before I can properly configure Petsc. However, I would like to remove this dependency on sudo rights and be able to point Petsc to a local installation of
bison and flex (or even better, have Petsc download and install them). Is this possible? I didn't see these packages listed on
<a href="https://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/miscellaneous/external.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">
https://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/miscellaneous/external.html</a>, so I'm not sure if Petsc can automatically download them.<br>
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> Is there a way to point Petsc to a local installation of bison and flex?<br>
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> Thanks!<br>
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