[petsc-dev] configure failing because of old nvcc

[Satish Balay]

There are a few changes after your 'feature addition. I'm not sure
where things diverged. I'm checking the rev history to see if I can
piece together why the 'divergence happeed'.

Satish

On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Matthew Knepley wrote:

> I did this already, have you pulled?
> 
>    Matt
> 
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Nov 5, 2010, at 1:18 PM, Satish Balay wrote:
> >
> > > I think part of the issue is the configure model for compiler detection.
> > >
> > > Perhaps we want buildsystem to detect/set compilers as it sees.  And
> > > then petsc side of configure to check if this functionality exists -
> > > and then use it? [with --with-cuda=1 flag in cuda.py?]
> > >
> > > There was a recent change to do version check of nvcc in buildsystem -
> > > instead of the prior check in cuda.py. [I just striped out the one
> > > from cuda.py - because it was broken].
> > >
> > > If so - perhaps the fix is to remove this check from Buildsystem
> > > [setCompilers.py - where it only determines cuda attributes like
> > > version - as stashes this info] - and place the version check back in
> > > cuda.py?
> >
> >   Yes, that is right.
> >
> >   Barry
> >
> > >
> > > Satish
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Barry Smith wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >>  You are correct, it should only stop on this if the user asked for
> > --with-cuda  Victor can you fix this.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Nov 5, 2010, at 12:57 PM, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Do we really want this? Perhaps CUDA should be just disabled, instead
> > >>> of configure failing? Note that I've not actually asked for a
> > >>> CUDA-enabled build:
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> $ cat linux-gnu/conf/reconfigure-linux-gnu.py
> > >>> #!/usr/bin/python
> > >>> if __name__ == '__main__':
> > >>> import sys
> > >>> import os
> > >>> sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('config'))
> > >>> import configure
> > >>> configure_options = [
> > >>>   'PETSC_ARCH=linux-gnu',
> > >>>   '--with-shared-libraries=1',
> > >>> ]
> > >>> configure.petsc_configure(configure_options)
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> [dalcinl at nikola dev]$ python linux-gnu/conf/reconfigure-linux-gnu.py
> > >>>
> > ===============================================================================
> > >>>            Configuring PETSc to compile on your system
> > >>>
> > ===============================================================================
> > >>> TESTING: checkCUDACompiler from
> > >>>
> > config.setCompilers(config/BuildSystem/config/se===============================================================================
> > >>> ** CUDA Error: PETSc requires nvcc version 3.2 when compiling with
> > --withcuda **
> > >>>
> > ===============================================================================
> > >>>
> > *******************************************************************************
> > >>>       CONFIGURATION CRASH  (Please send configure.log to
> > >>> petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov)
> > >>>
> > *******************************************************************************
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> --
> > >>> Lisandro Dalcin
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> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> >
> >
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