[petsc-users] "Could not find a suitable archiver. Use --with-arto specify an archiver"

[Balay, Satish]

What about:


mpicc -c sizeof.c
/usr/bin/ar cr libconf1.a sizeof.o

Satish

On Fri, 26 Oct 2018, avatar wrote:

> I could not do all things you posted below. I get these:
> 
> 
> Scott-Grad-MacBook-Pro:petsc-3.8.3 zhihui$ cd src
> Scott-Grad-MacBook-Pro:src zhihui$ cd benchmarks/
> Scott-Grad-MacBook-Pro:benchmarks zhihui$ mpicc -c sizeof.c
> Scott-Grad-MacBook-Pro:benchmarks zhihui$ ls -l sizeof.o
> -rw-r--r--  1 zhihui  staff  1452 Oct 25 17:00 sizeof.o
> Scott-Grad-MacBook-Pro:benchmarks zhihui$ /usr/bin/ar cr /tmp/libconf1.a sizeof.o
> ar: temporary file: No such file or directory
> Scott-Grad-MacBook-Pro:benchmarks zhihui$ /usr/bin/ar cr /tmp/libconf1.a  sizeof.o
> ar: temporary file: No such file or directory
> Scott-Grad-MacBook-Pro:benchmarks zhihui$
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------ Original ------------------
> From:  "Balay, Satish";<balay at mcs.anl.gov>;
> Date:  Oct 26, 2018
> To:  "avatar"<648934229 at qq.com>; 
> Cc:  "petsc-users"<petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov>; 
> Subject:  Re: [petsc-users] "Could not find a suitable archiver. Use --with-arto specify an archiver"
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2018, avatar wrote:
> 
> > Hi Satish,
> > 
> > 
> > Thank you very much for your quick response.
> > 
> > 
> > The log file is as follow:
> > 
> 
> >>>>>>
> Executing: /usr/bin/ar cr /tmp/petsc-mjVUVK/config.setCompilers/libconf1.a /tmp/petsc-mjVUVK/config.setCompilers/conf1.o
> Possible ERROR while running archiver: exit code 256
> stderr:
> ar: temporary file: No such file or directory
>             Archiver is not functional
> 
> <<<<<<
> This is a strange error.
> 
> What do you get when you do the following:
> 
> balay at jpro^~/petsc(maint-3.8) $ cd src/benchmarks/
> balay at jpro^~/petsc/src/benchmarks(maint-3.8) $ mpicc -c sizeof.c 
> balay at jpro^~/petsc/src/benchmarks(maint-3.8) $ ls -l sizeof.o
> -rw-r--r--  1 balay  staff  3036 Oct 25 17:54 sizeof.o
> balay at jpro^~/petsc/src/benchmarks(maint-3.8) $ /usr/bin/ar cr /tmp/libconf1.a  sizeof.o
> balay at jpro^~/petsc/src/benchmarks(maint-3.8) $ ls -l /tmp/libconf1.a
> -rw-r--r--  1 balay  wheel  3224 Oct 25 17:55 /tmp/libconf1.a
> balay at jpro^~/petsc/src/benchmarks(maint-3.8) $ ar t /tmp/libconf1.a
> __.SYMDEF SORTED
> sizeof.o
> 
> balay at jpro^~/petsc/src/benchmarks(maint-3.8) $ cp sizeof.o /tmp/
> balay at jpro^~/petsc/src/benchmarks(maint-3.8) $ ls -l /tmp/sizeof.o 
> -rw-r--r--  1 balay  wheel  3036 Oct 25 17:55 /tmp/sizeof.o
> balay at jpro^~/petsc/src/benchmarks(maint-3.8) $ /usr/bin/ar cr /tmp/libconf2.a /tmp/sizeof.o
> balay at jpro^~/petsc/src/benchmarks(maint-3.8) $ ls -l /tmp/libconf2.a
> -rw-r--r--  1 balay  wheel  3224 Oct 25 17:55 /tmp/libconf2.a
> balay at jpro^~/petsc/src/benchmarks(maint-3.8) $ ar t /tmp/libconf2.a
> __.SYMDEF SORTED
> sizeof.o
> balay at jpro^~/petsc/src/benchmarks(maint-3.8) $ 
> 
> Satish