[petsc-dev] build errror

[Mark F. Adams]

On Sep 21, 2013, at 7:19 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> 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]

OK, that worked.  Thanks. 

> 
> 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
>> 
>> 
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