[petsc-dev] elemental in nightly builds with g++-4.6

[Jack Poulson]

On 10/09/2013 01:49 PM, Satish Balay wrote:
> Configure goes through fine - but elemental fails.
> 
> If gcc-4.6 is not suitable - either elemental configure [or petsc configure]
> should have an appropriate check before attempting this build?
> 
> http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/nightlylogs/archive/2013/10/09/build_next_arch-linux-pkgs-cxx-mlib_grind.log
> http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/nightlylogs/archive/2013/10/09/configure_next_arch-linux-pkgs-cxx-mlib_grind.log
> 
> For some reason when I attempted this manually yesterday - it
> worked. [again worked today with one of my attempts] - but most of my
> retries today failed. wierd..
> 
> [it works with +gcc-4.7.3 or +gcc-4.8.0 though]
> 
> Satish
> 

Thank you for bringing this issue up!

It seems that g++-4.6 does not yet support template aliases (which
produces the 'using' error in the log):
    http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/cxx0x_status.html

I'll add an appropriate configure check soon. Cholesky with full
pivoting is about to be added as well.

Jack