[petsc-dev] PETSC's compilation

[Satish Balay]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, David sheehan wrote:

> I try openmpi, there are the following error,
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/home/David/petsc300p11_openmpi --with-cc=gcc
> --with-cxx=g++ --with-fc=ifort --download-openmpi=1 --download-hypre=1
> =================================================================================
>              Configuring PETSc to compile on your system
> =================================================================================
> TESTING: check from
> config.libraries(config/BuildSystem/config/libraries.py:126)
> *********************************************************************************
>          UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS    (see configure.log for
> details):
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Currently --download-openmpi option does not work with --prefix install.
> Suggest installing OpenMPI separately, and then configuring PETSc with
> --with-mpi-dir option.
> *********************************************************************************
> 
> How to fix it? thanks.

configure already gave the answer to your question

satish