[petsc-dev] broke configure removed config.guess and config.sub

[Matthew Knepley]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Mat,
>
> Since ftp is working but not http - as a workarround you could try for eg:
>
> ./configure --download-f-blas-lapack=
> ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/externalpackages/f2cblaslapack-3.1.1.a.tar.gz


Cool, I did not know that worked. We need to have failover it sounds like.

   Matt


>
> Satish
>
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Matthew Knepley wrote:
>
> > How about lighting a fire under those fuckers at systems so I can
> > reconfigure? FTP has
> > been down all day.
> >
> >    Matt
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >   Matt and everyone
> > >
> > >    I have intentionally partly broken configure by removing ALL traces
> of
> > > the use of the two horrible horrible bash shell scripts config.guess
> and
> > > config.sub that should have been removed a decade ago and make
> configure
> > > work only on Unix.
> > >
> > >   This will break sharedLibraries.py that used hostOSBase which
> computed
> > > using host_os and TetGen.py and Triangle.py that for some strange
> reason
> > > also use it. Best to get rid of hostOSbase completely and do proper
> tests
> > > for different ways of making shared libraries.  Until this is fixed
> > > sharedlibraries won't work.
> > >
> > >   Please report or fix all problems that come up ASAP.
> > >
> > >   Barry
> > >
> > > Yes be pissed at me for ruining your day, but I'm finally lighting the
> fire
> > > under bad configure practices that make it only work on Unix. Cygwin
> usage
> > > must die!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>


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