[petsc-users] hypre

[Barry Smith]

On Mar 22, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Matthew Knepley wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> On Mar 22, 2011, at 11:22 AM, Satish Balay wrote:
> 
> > If --download-package doesn't work - it prints the URL of the package.
> >
> > If we need to document this further - 'configure --help' should print
> > the defulat URLs for packages.
> 
>   Yes it should print it!  The problem is that --help also prints a ton of stuff that gets confusing and in the way of important things. Better way to organize the output?
> 
> Okay, no one replied to my other suggestion. How about
> 
>   ./configure --help Hypre
> 
> prints only help for the Hypre section

   I think this is a good approach. This general mechanism will allow getting help for any particular subpart that people want help in.

   Most PETSc users don't know grep from a hole in the wall so that is not a good solution.

   Barry


> 
>    Matt
>  
>  Barry
> 
> 
> > Satish
> >
> > On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Barry Smith wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>  We need to make the specific tar file version more transparent:
> >>
> >>  When the tarball is generated should a nice list of the tarballs for each external packages be automatically generated and put somehow in the document? Should we have a tool that extracts that information from the appropriate XXX.py upon request? How to tell people about this tool? If we have to tell them about the tool we might as just well tell them to look in the appropriate config/PETSc/packages/XXXX.py or config/BuildSystem/config/packagesXXX.py directly?
> >>
> >>   Barry
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mar 22, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Satish Balay wrote:
> >>
> >>> Which version of PETSc are you using? The URL for hypre is listed in
> >>> config/PETSc/packages/hypre.py - for any given version of petsc.
> >>>
> >>> for petsc-3.1 its: http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/externalpackages/hypre-2.6.0b.tar.gz
> >>>
> >>> Satish
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Verena Kuhlemann wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> I was wondering which version of HYPRE one should use with Petsc. I need to
> >>>> download it before
> >>>> the configuration of Petsc as --download-hypre=1 is not working for me.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Verena
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
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