[petsc-dev] build errror

[Satish Balay]

On Sat, 21 Sep 2013, Mark F. Adams wrote:

> Well, this is getting hard to reproduce so I'm going back to the beginning:
> 
>   711  git checkout master
>   712  git pull
>   713  rm -fr arch-macosx-gnu-O
>   714  ./arch-macosx-gnu-O.py
> 
> and I get this error.

>>>>>>
./ui/mpich/utils.c:158: warning: zero-length printf format string
./ui/mpich/utils.c:158: warning: zero-length printf format string
./ui/mpich/utils.c: In function 'info_fn':
./ui/mpich/utils.c:1240: warning: zero-length printf format string
./ui/mpich/utils.c:1240: warning: zero-length printf format string
gmake[2]: *** write jobserver: Broken pipe.  Stop.
gmake[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
gmake[2]: *** write jobserver: Broken pipe.  Stop.
gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
gmake: *** [all] Error 2
gmake: INTERNAL: Exiting with 1 jobserver tokens available; should be 7!
<<<<<<

Now gmake is crashing '--download-mpich' part of the configure [which
happened before for you]

Again workarround is '--with-make=make'

Or delete/reinstall the buggy gmake thats in your PATH.

Satish