[petsc-dev] build errror

[Mark F. Adams]

I'd like to fix gmake.  I use macports and see:

19:04 master ~/Codes/petsc$ which gmake
/opt/local/bin/gmake
19:08 master ~/Codes/petsc$ gmake --version
GNU Make 3.82
Built for x86_64-apple-darwin12.1.0
Copyright (C) 2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Do you have any advice?



On Sep 21, 2013, at 7:07 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> 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