[petsc-dev] configure failed after update of OSX

[Åsmund Ervik]

>From: Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov>
>To: Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org>
>Cc: petsc-dev <petsc-dev at mcs.anl.gov>
>Subject: Re: [petsc-dev] configure failed after update of OSX
>
>Our linux compute machines [ubuntu 12.04] is also has  3.81
>
>Fedora Linux is still at 3.82
>http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=813

ArchLinux (which is bleeding edge and rolling release) only upgraded to 4.0 in October. The latest OpenSuse ships 3.82.

And I must say after this lengthy thread on OSX configure calamities, it seems that people doing scientific computing on OSX are doing themselves a disservice. Surely taking half a day up front to install a sane OS is better than spending half a day fixing stuff every time Apple decides to change something?

Just my $0.02 .

Regards,
Åsmund