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

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
> On Jan 26, 2010, at 6:04 PM, Matthew Knepley wrote:
>
>  Pull PETSc and try again.
>>
>
>  NO! Pull BuildSystem and try again. Send configure.log and reconfigure.py
> if it fails
>

1) No this is wrong


>  Matt, revert any silly changes you just made to petsc-dev to fix this
> nonexistent problem.
>

2) I made the correct change. Look at it first, and then tell me its wrong

  Matt


>   Barry
>
>
>
>>  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
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
>> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
>> experiments lead.
>> -- Norbert Wiener
>>
>
>


-- 
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is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments
lead.
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