[petsc-dev] Fwd: [petsc-users] Could not find make when building PETSc in Windows 7

Barry Smith bsmith at mcs.anl.gov
Mon Oct 28 20:25:51 CDT 2013 


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov>
> 
> 
> Mostlikely this is related to using 'winzip' or '7zip' to untar petsc
> sources. Try using 'tar' from cygwin.

   Is there a way for configure to detect this problem and generate a very useful error message instead of having obscure crashes in the middle of builds that only Satish can decipher?

   Thanks

    Barry

> 
> Or you can ignore this issue if not using f90 modules from your code.
> 
> Satish
> 
> On Mon, 28 Oct 2013, Qin Lu wrote:
> 
>> Satish,
>> 
>> I followed your suggestion to run "export PATH=/usr/bin:$PATH", now grep, rm, etc., point to those under /usr/bin. I then run configure and make all again, the previous make errors about grep, etc. , were gone! Now the make all ran to the end but gave the error "makefile:24: recipe for target 'all' failed", as shown below.  I opened the error.log and it said
>> 
>>  "/usr/bin/ar: petscvecmod.o: No such file or directory
>> /usr/bin/cp: cannot stat `*.mod': No such file or directory"
>> 
>> But I checked "which ar" and it returned "/usr/bin/ar", so ar.exe is there.
>> 
>> The error.log and make.log makefile are attached for details.
>> 
>> Thanks for any suggestions,
>> Qin 
>> 
>> =======  make output ========
>> libfast in: /cygdrive/c/cygwin_cache/petsc-3.4.2/src/contrib
>> libfast in: /cygdrive/c/cygwin_cache/petsc-3.4.2/src/contrib/fun3d
>> libfast in: /cygdrive/c/cygwin_cache/petsc-3.4.2/src/contrib/fun3d/comp
>> libfast in: /cygdrive/c/cygwin_cache/petsc-3.4.2/src/contrib/fun3d/incomp
>> libfast in: /cygdrive/c/cygwin_cache/petsc-3.4.2/src/benchmarks
>> libfast in: /cygdrive/c/cygwin_cache/petsc-3.4.2/include
>> libfast in: /cygdrive/c/cygwin_cache/petsc-3.4.2/include/finclude
>> libfast in: /cygdrive/c/cygwin_cache/petsc-3.4.2/include/finclude/ftn-auto
>> libfast in: /cygdrive/c/cygwin_cache/petsc-3.4.2/include/finclude/ftn-custom
>> libfast in: /cygdrive/c/cygwin_cache/petsc-3.4.2/include/petsc-private
>> libfast in: /cygdrive/c/cygwin_cache/petsc-3.4.2/include/sieve
>> libfast in: /cygdrive/c/cygwin_cache/petsc-3.4.2/tutorials
>> libfast in: /cygdrive/c/cygwin_cache/petsc-3.4.2/tutorials/python
>> Completed building libraries
>> =========================================
>> **************************ERROR************************************
>> Error during compile, check arch-mswin-c-opt/conf/make.log
>> Send it and arch-mswin-c-opt/conf/configure.log to petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov
>> *****************************************************************
>> makefile:24: recipe for target 'all' failedmake: *** [all] Error 1
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Monday, October 28, 2013 11:50 AM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>> 
>> cygwin should have already setup PATH correctly so that its listed first
>> 
>> What do you have for:
>> 
>> echo $PATH
>> which make
>> which rm
>> which grep
>> export PATH=/usr/bin:$PATH
>> which make
>> which rm
>> which grep
>> 
>> Satish
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, 28 Oct 2013, Qin Lu wrote:
>> 
>>> Satish,
>>>  
>>> As far as I know, cygwin reads the Windows enviromental variable PATH. Can I not change the the setting in in the Windows enviromental variables (since other programs need them), but change the PATH used by cygwin only? Which file should I change?
>>>  
>>> Thanks,
>>> Qin
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Monday, October 28, 2013 11:16 AM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>>>   
>>>> /cygdrive/c/Windows/SUA/common/rm -f -rf /cygdrive/c/cygwin_cache/petsc-3.4.3/arch-mswin-c-opt/lib/libpetsc*.*
>>> 
>>> You appear to have non cygwin stuff in your PATH. Can you remove these
>>> things from your PATH - make sure grep in PATH is from cygwin - and
>>> rerun configure && make
>>> 
>>> Satish
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mon, 28 Oct 2013, Qin Lu wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>>  
>>>> The configuration seemed to work, then I ran "make all" but got errors such as "grep: Cannot open file '/dev/fs/C/cygdrive/c/cygwin_cache/petsc-3.4.3/include/petscversion.h': No such file or directory". See the attached error.log and make.log for details.
>>>>  
>>>> I confirmed that c:\cygwin_cache\petsc-3.4.3\include\petscversion.h is there. '\The ''/dev/fs/C' part in the directory seems suspicious. Did I missed anything in the setup?
>>>>  
>>>> Thanks for any hints,
>>>> Qin 
>>>>  
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Thursday, October 24, 2013 2:05 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>>>>   
>>>> pushed ee76e990026b11c1f9c153f288b72cc9b8ebb100 and merged to next.
>>>> 
>>>> It will go into 'maint' later..
>>>> 
>>>> Satish
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, 24 Oct 2013, Satish Balay wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Perhaps we should add back the windows-python check?
>>>>> 
>>>>> [since we haven't yet added the windows python support]
>>>>> 
>>>>> Satish
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, 24 Oct 2013, Qin Lu wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Chetan
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Great, that was the problem! I set python point to a copy that was not cygwin's. Now I set it to cygwin's python and it this error is gone! I am waiting to see if the whole building will finish without problems.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks a lot for all you guys' helps.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Qin 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Thursday, October 24, 2013 11:28 AM, Chetan Jhurani <chetan.jhurani at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> I vaguely recall seeing the "could not locate make" error
>>>>>> when a non-cygwin python is picked up first in path.
>>>>>> So ensure that "which python" points to cygwin python.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Another issue is that the --with-make argument, if it is
>>>>>> needed, should be /cygdrive/C/cygwin64/bin (or with some
>>>>>> other drive letter in between where cygwin is installed).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Chetan
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>> From: petsc-users-bounces at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:petsc-users-bounces at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Qin Lu
>>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 8:43 AM
>>>>>>> To: Jed Brown; petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [petsc-users] Could not find make when building PETSc in Windows 7
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Jed,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> As I mentioned, I did add C:\cygwin64\bin (where make.exe is) to Path, and also tried to run
>>>>>>> ./configure --with-cc='win32fe icl' --with-fc='win32fe ifort' --with-cxx='win32fe icl' --with-
>>>>>>> make=/cygdrive/cygwin64/bin. It did not work, I just tried what you suggested: adding --download-make
>>>>>>> in confugure, it gave the same error.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> Qin
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Thursday, October 24, 2013 10:36 AM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>>>>>>> Qin Lu <lu_qin_2000 at yahoo.com> writes:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I am trying to build PETSc in Windows 7 with following steps:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 1. Installed cygwin 64-bit with python, make and other default packages under C:\cygwin64
>>>>>>>> 2. Added C:\cygwin64\bin to Windows environmental variable Path.
>>>>>>>> 3. Downloaded and unzipped PETSc 3.4.2.
>>>>>>>> 4. Run mintty.exe to open a cygwin terminal.
>>>>>>>> 5. In the cygwin terminal, under PETSc directory, run:  ./configure --with-cc='win32fe icl' --with-
>>>>>>> fc='win32fe ifort' --with-cxx='win32fe icl'
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> However, it gave an error "Could not locate the make utility on your system, make sure it is in your
>>>>>>> path or use --with-make=/fullpathnameofmake and run ./configure again".  I suppose it should use
>>>>>>> C:\cygwin64\bin\make.exe, which is already in path, but I still added  --with-
>>>>>>> make=/cvgdrive/cygwin64/bin in configure's option and run configure again, yet it gave the same error.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> You need to pass the full path to the make executable (or add it to your
>>>>>>> path), or you can use --download-make.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> What should I do to let configure know the path of make?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Many thanks for your help,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Regard,
>>>>>>>> Qin
>>>>>> 
>>>>>

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