[petsc-dev] Supporting --download-hdf5 in Cygwin?

[Richard Tran Mills]

Hi Satish,

I got this message attempting to use the Gnu compilers; that's all that 
I've got on this system.  Should I send the configure.log to petsc-maint?

--Richard

On 10/4/13 4:34 PM, Satish Balay wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Oct 2013, Richard Tran Mills wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> If I tell configure.py '--download-hdf5=1', I get a message that "External
>> package hdf5 does not support --download-hdf5 on Microsoft Windows".  However,
>> I just built HDF5 1.8.11 from source under 64-bit Cygwin and, except for one
>> problem with building the 'h5ls' utility, it appears that this ought to work.
>> Can we support this? And what is the procedure for changing package
>> configuration info in BuildSystem these days?  These files show up in the
>> 'petsc' repo but there appears to be a 'buildsystem' repo on BitBucket as
>> well; not sure what the relationship is between them.
> When you say 'Supporting --download-hdf5 in Cygwin' and refer to 64-bit - you
> mean MS compilers or cygwin gcc/gfortran?
>
> The error message should come up only with MS compilers.
>
> Presumably --download-hdf5 should work with gnu compilers - if it doesn't - it
> probably needs some tweaking.
>
> Wrt repo - we now have a single git repo bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc
> where all petsc/buildsystem changes should go to.
>
> Satish
>