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

[Matthew Knepley]

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Carl Ponder <CPonder at nvidia.com> wrote:

>  *On 11/03/2010 05:43 PM, Satish Balay wrote:*
>
>  Perhaps you pulled petsc-dev - but not BuildSystem - so they are out-of-sync?
>
>
> Satish -- here are the commands I used:
>
> hg clone http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/petsc-dev
> cd petsc-dev/config
> hg clone http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/BuildSystem
> cd ..
> export PETSC_ARCH=arch-linux-gnu-c-debug
> export PETSC_DIR=$PWD
> ./configure --with-cc=mpicc --with-fc=mpif90 --download-f-blas-lapack=1
> --download-hdf5=1 --prefix=$PETSC_DIR/$PETSC_ARCH
> make PETSC_DIR=$PWD PETSC_ARCH=arch-linux-gnu-c-debug all
>
> Note that while I pulled BuildSystem, I haven't taken any special steps to
> install it, I just run the installation steps for petsc-dev in the parent
> directory.
> This is what I get from reading
>
> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/developers/index.html#Obtaining
>
> although I'm skipping the steps
>
> hg pull -u
> ./$PETSC_ARCH/conf/reconfigure-$PETSC_ARCH.py
>
> Are these necessary, given that I've pulled the updated trees and run the
> configure & make?
>

You are using terms imprecisely. By "pull", we mean

  hg pull -u

not a clone. Pull updates the repository:

  http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Tutorial

  Matt


> Thanks,
>
>                     Carl Ponder
>
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