[petsc-dev] hdf5.py is messed up

[Matthew Knepley]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Matthew Knepley wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Sean Farley wrote:
> > >
> > > > >
> > > > > HDF5 in their infinite wisdom run tests in the same make target as
> the
> > > > > build. One of the Fortran
> > > > > tests breaks on the Mac. The only solution that worked for me was
> to
> > > > > disable that test with a
> > > > > patch for the source. I mailed them this problem with no response.
> Feel
> > > > > free to fix this in a way
> > > > > that satisfies you aesthetically.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > I run version 1.8.8 and haven't had anything blow up when making
> tests.
> > >
> > > For one - if we have to manitain patches - we do them in a repo - for
> eg:
> > > at http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/externalpackages/hdf5-1.8.4/ [and
> spin
> > > our patched tarball]
> > >
> >
> > I do not see that being in any way superior, and my way allows us to pull
> > directly from the HDF5 site.
>
> 1. patches are easier to maintain and track in hg.
>

Notice that this patch is "versioned in a repo".


> 2. From current experience direct link to external sites is not
> necessarily superior. [still preferable - but not really
> superior]. More points of failure [when compared to a single download
> site]. Also there are python problems  with https:// sites with proxy
>

The problems seem to stem from weird DOE configurations :)

   Matt


> Perhaps I should switch over these [https] tarballs to ftp.mcs..
>
> Satish
>
> >
> >
> > > If 1.8.8 works without patches - then we could upgrade to that..
> >
> >
> > If it works, I will not argue. However, if it fails on my machine,  I do
> not
> > want to change.
> >
> >     Matt
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Satish
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>


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