[petsc-dev] build errror

[Satish Balay]

And I do not understand the exact problem with macports gmake [and
what these error messages mean].I do not know enough about macports.

https://www.macports.org/guide/

perhaps you could do

port uninstall gmake
[and not have macports gmake at-all]

Satish

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

> 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
> 
>