[petsc-dev] pip cannot currently automatically download and install petsc on OS X

[Aron Ahmadia]

Lisandro has fixed the first issue, but another has sprung up in its place:

pip seems to be installing the packages out of order and insists on
building petsc4py before petsc.  We still have the issue with petsc wanting
mpif90 available on OS X...

A

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Aron Ahmadia <aron at ahmadia.net> wrote:

> This is on an OS X.6 box running Python 2.7 and pip 1.0.2
>
> # at command line:
> pip install -vvv petsc4py
>
> # relevant bits:
> Downloading/unpacking petsc>=3.2,<3.3 (from petsc4py)
>   Getting page http://pypi.python.org/simple/petsc
>   URLs to search for versions for petsc>=3.2,<3.3 (from petsc4py):
>   * http://pypi.python.org/simple/petsc/
>   Getting page http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/
> ...
>   Skipping page
> http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/release-snapshots/petsc-lite-3.2-p6.tar.gz(from
> http://pypi.python.org/simple/petsc/) because of Content-Type:
> application/x-gzip
> ...
>
>     Found link
> http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/release-snapshots/petsc-lite-3.2-p6.tar.gz(from
> http://pypi.python.org/simple/petsc/), version: lite-3.2-p6
>
> The "lite-" prefix is being interpreted as part of the version, which pip
> doesn't quite know what to do with.  It would probably just be easiest to
> host lite versions in a separate directory
> ../release-snapshots/lite/petsc-3.2-p6.tar.gz that petsc4py/PyPI can point
> to.  Lisandro can also point to the non-lite versions until a solution is
> implemented.
>
> This is going to be an additional problem:
>
>
> *******************************************************************************
>
>          UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS    (see configure.log for
> details):
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Fortran compiler you provided with --with-fc=/usr/bin/mpif90 does not work
>
>
> *******************************************************************************
>
> Obviously the Mac doesn't come with /usr/bin/mpif90, so a clean system
> won't have this either...  I think you guys know your options for how to
> fix this, but let me know if you want my 2 cents :)
>
> =AA=
>
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