[petsc-dev] build errror

[Satish Balay]

On Sat, 21 Sep 2013, Sean Farley wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 6:07 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.
> 
> Something else seems to be amiss. I just did as Mark did (with the
> same gmake in my PATH) and it went through fine. Mark, perhaps you
> could update Xcode to 5.0 and also command-line tools?
> 
> Maybe something wrong with mpich? I'm attaching my
> externalpackage-mpich's config.log as well.

The failure happens during both mpich parallel build and petsc
parallel build - so I don't think its mpich related.

And I think Barry also has gmake from Macports - and its worked well
so for - except for one ocassion. [Until he has a repeat of this -
we'll consider it a random error thats cleared up now]

Satish