[petsc-dev] Petsc-dev compilation: error because of underscore.

[Vijay S. Mahadevan]

I do not have mercurial installed on my cluster and do not have the
priveleges to do so now. I used the tarball for petsc-dev from the
link in the site. Just do let me know if the tarball will contain this
update. Or if it is not too much trouble, I would appreciate it if you
can send me a patch.

Either way, do let me know which option will work for my situation. Thanks.
Vijay

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
> Pull PETSc and try again.
>
>   Matt
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Vijay S. Mahadevan <vijay.m at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm  trying to install the development copy of Petsc in a linux
>> cluster. The configuration proceeded fine until I had to run conftest
>> for the batch system. After running conftest in a node and then
>> running reconfigure on the main node, I get the following error.
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "./reconfigure.py", line 25, in ?
>>   configure.petsc_configure(configure_options)
>>  File "/emchome/vijaysm/soft/petsc-3.0-dev/config/configure.py", line
>> 150, in petsc_configure
>>   check_for_option_mistakes(sys.argv)
>>  File "/emchome/vijaysm/soft/petsc-3.0-dev/config/configure.py", line
>> 33, in check_for_option_mistakes
>>   raise ValueError('The option '+name+' should probably be
>> '+name.replace('_', '-'));
>> ValueError: The option --known-sizeof-void_p should probably be
>> --known-sizeof-void-p
>>
>> I could not find the location where "--known-sizeof-" is read from or
>> else I could've tried to change this and reconfigure petsc. Do let me
>> know if there is a fix for this.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Vijay
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