[petsc-users] METIS without C++ compiler

[Satish Balay]

On Tue, 12 Jan 2016, Jed Brown wrote:

> Tabrez Ali <tabrezali at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Hello
> >
> > I just wanted to point that configure fails when "--with-metis=1 
> > --download-metis=1" options are used and a C++ compiler is not installed.
> >
> > After changing "project(METIS)" to "project(METIS C)" in 
> > petsc-3.6.3/arch-linux2-c-opt/externalpackages/metis-5.1.0-p1/CMakeLists.txt 
> > it works alright.
> 
> Thanks, it looks like ParMETIS needs this too.  I've pushed this change
> to the repositories for each.  Satish can bump the patch number and
> point PETSc to the new version.
> 

spun the new patched tarballs - and added the change in
'balay/to-maint-metis-parmetis-nocxx' and merged to next - for now.

Satish