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

[Matthew Knepley]

On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Hm self.downloadonWindows is supposed to be for MS compilers only.
>

      if self.download and
self.framework.argDB.get('download-'+self.downloadname.lower()) and not
self.downloadonWindows and self.setCompilers.isCygwin():
        raise RuntimeError('External package '+self.name+' does not support
--download-'+self.downloadname.lower()+' on Microsoft Windows')

   Matt


> If thats not the case - the bug is somewere else..
>
> satish
>
> On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, Richard Tran Mills wrote:
>
> > Matt,
> >
> > I tried this and it works under 32-bit Cygwin.  It should also work under
> > 64-bit Cygwin except that it hits an error when building the 'h5ls'
> target
> > (can overcome this by telling make to ignore errors or by making a small
> patch
> > to the relevant HDF5 code--this is a Cygwin64/HDF5 problem and has
> nothing to
> > do with BuildSystem).
> >
> > Can we go ahead and get this change into 'master' ASAP?  I am not sure
> of the
> > proper workflow to use for such a small change as this.  I'd like
> > --download-hdf5 to be working before I leave for Germany in a few days
> to do a
> > short course there.
> >
> > --Richard
> >
> > On 10/4/13 5:45 PM, Matthew Knepley wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Richard Tran Mills <rtm at eecs.utk.edu
> > > <mailto: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 <http://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc>
> > >         where all petsc/buildsystem changes should go to.
> > >
> > >         Satish
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
> experiments
> > > is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
> experiments
> > > lead.
> > > -- Norbert Wiener
> >
> >
> >
>
>


-- 
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
experiments lead.
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