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

[Matthew Knepley]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Aron Ahmadia <aron.ahmadia at kaust.edu.sa>wrote:

> 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...
>

Where are the configure arguments stored so I can look at them?

   Matt


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