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

[Satish Balay]

perhaps isCygwin() should be changed to isWindows()

satish

On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, Matthew Knepley wrote:

> 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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