<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 9:57 PM Yaswanth Narayana <<a href="mailto:ynarayan@buffalo.edu">ynarayan@buffalo.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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My name is Yaswanth Narayana. I am using PETSc as part of my course HPC1. When trying to use make I am getting the following error. What should I do?</div>
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makefile:8: /lib/petsc/conf/rules: No such file or directory<br>
<span>make: *** No rule to make target 'PETSC_DIR/lib/petsc/conf/rules'. Stop.</span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You do not have PETSC_DIR defined in your environment. You can check this using</div><div><br></div><div> echo $PETSC_DIR</div><div><br></div><div>It should print a directory name.</div><div><br></div><div> Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div> Prof. Knepley</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
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<span>I have tried changing the directory name and changed to the directory containing files 'rules' and 'variables' but still receiving the same error. Please help in this regard.</span></div>
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<span>Thank you</span></div>
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<span>Yours sincerely</span></div>
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<span>Yaswanth</span><br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>-- Norbert Wiener</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/" target="_blank">https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>