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

[Matthew Knepley]

On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Richard Tran Mills <rtm at eecs.utk.edu> wrote:

> 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?
>

Want to add

  self.downloadonWindows   = 1

to __init__ of config/BuildSystem/config/packages/hdf5.py and see if it
work?

  Thanks,

    Matt


> --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
>>
>>
>


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