[petsc-dev] configure failed after update of OSX

[Barry Smith]

On Jan 27, 2014, at 11:44 AM, Sean Farley <sean.michael.farley at gmail.com> wrote:

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> bsmith at mcs.anl.gov writes:
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>>  I think resolved it by getting rid of some stuff that macports put in maybe
> 
> I just *completely* revamped the mpi ports in macports and would like to
> know if these types of problems still exist.

  Sean,

    It wasn’t the MPI ports in macports. It was MPICH’s regular configure/make making mistakes because of some libraries in those directories that did not have corresponding .la files.

   Barry

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>>  MPICH or libtool assumes certain files are there if other files are there (without checking for them)
>> 
>>   Barry
>> 
>> On Jan 27, 2014, at 10:36 AM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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>>> On Mon, 27 Jan 2014, Jed Brown wrote:
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>>>> Mark Adams <mfadams at lbl.gov> writes:
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>>>>> It seems to want /opt/local/lib/liblzma.la
>>>>> I do have /opt/local/lib/liblzma.a
>>>> 
>>>> There is no explicit reference to liblzma in either PETSc or MPICH.  Can
>>>> you send PETSC_ARCH/externalpackages/mpich*/config.log?
>>> 
>>> Ah - perhaps its a buggy libtool. Presumably its picked up from
>>> /opt/local/bin/libtool - aka macports - and you have a broken macports
>>> install.
>>> 
>>> Satish
>>> 
>>> 
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