[petsc-dev] Problem with latest "petsc-dev" change

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Carl Ponder wrote:

> 
> I just copied thepetsc-dev subtree using the commands
> 
>    hg clone http://$USER:$PASSWORD@petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/petsc-dev


for http there is no '$USER:$PASSWORD@' in the URL [I guess its just ignored - so it works..]


>    cd petsc-dev/config
>    hg clone http://$USER:$PASSWORD@petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/BuildSystem
>    cd ..
>    export PETSC_DIR=$PWD
>    ./configure --with-cc=gcc --with-fc=mpif90
>    --download-f-blas-lapack=1 --download-mpich=1 --download-hdf5=1
> 
> It looks like the filepetsc-dev/configure has changed in the last day or two:
> 
>    #!/usr/bin/env python
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>    <
>    import sys <
>    if sys.version_info.major > 2: <
>       print('Configure does not support Python 3 yet, please run as') <
>       print('  python2 ' + ' '.join(["'" + a + "'" for a in sys.argv])) <
>       sys.exit(1) <
>    <
>    import os
> import os
>    execfile(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'config',
>    'configure.py'))       execfile(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),
> 'config',
>    'configure.py'))
> 
> and no longer works in my environment:
> 
>    Traceback (most recent call last):
>       File "./configure", line 4, in <module>
>         if sys.version_info.major > 2:
>    AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'major'


I pushed a fix now.. You can pull and retry [after 'hg revert configure' - to remove your local changes]


Satish

> 
> If I remove the test, it works.
> Are you in the middle of making & testing code changes?
> And if so, when do you expect it to be stable?
> 
> I'm running Ubuntu Linux 10.04.1 64-bit on i7.
> Are there additional parameters I need to pass to./configure or other packages
> I need to install?
> Thanks,
> 
>                    Carl Ponder
> 
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