[petsc-dev] Fwd: [petsc-maint] help with PETSc compilation

[Steven Dalton]

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On Aug 9, 2013 12:25 PM, "Barry Smith" <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
>    petsc-dev folks,
>
>    If PETSc is configured to generate a shared library then ./configure
> should check each externally needed library and make sure they can be
> handled with a shared library. This shouldn't be something discovered at
> PETSc library compilation time.
>
>    Barry
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> > From: Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov>
> > Subject: Re: [petsc-maint] help with PETSc compilation
> > Date: August 9, 2013 1:23:14 PM CDT
> > To: Brendan C Lyons <bclyons at princeton.edu>
> > Cc: petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov
> >
> >
> >   Brendan,
> >
> >   The scalapack you are linking against is not compiled to go into a
> shared library.
> >
> > /usr/bin/ld:
> /usr/pppl/pathscale/4.0.X-pkgs/openmpi-1.6-pkgs/scalapack-2.0.2/lib/libscalapack.a(blacs_map_.o):
> relocation R_X86_64_32S against `ompi_mpi_comm_null' can not be used when
> making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> >
> >  You can either
> >
> > 1) not build PETSc shared libraries by adding the configure option
> --with-shared-libraries=0   With this option linking executables will be
> slower.
> >
> > or
> >
> > 2) use --download-scalapack instead of --with-scalapack-dir
> >
> >   Barry
> >
> >
> > On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:58 PM, Brendan C Lyons <bclyons at princeton.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Dear Sir or Madam,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to compile a debug version of PETSc to track down an error
> with SuperLU_DIST using multiple processors, but I'm running into an error.
>  The error message said to send you the attached files.  If you have any
> advice, I would appreciate it.
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >>
> >> ~Brendan Lyons
> >> Graduate Student
> >> Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
> >> <configure.log><make.log>
> >
>
>
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