[petsc-dev] petsc4py, TAO, and complex scalars

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some time ago I merged tao4py in petsc4py following PETSc. Now I
> realize that TA0 is not available for --with-scalar-type=complex, all
> of the TAO API is not built. Adding support for this case in petsc4py
> will be rather involved, so I want to propose an alternative.
>
> I have a rather small patch that enables the compile of interface TAO
> APIs.  With this patch, I can build petsc4py, but obviously any
> attempt of use a specific TAO solver type fails at runtime because the
> solve implementations are not registered. But at least, petsc4py can
> be built with complex scalars and all other PETSc components can be
> used normally.
>
> What do you think? If you accept this proposal, I'll put all this in a
> branch for review. Additionally, I would like to merge this fix into
> maint.


That sounds fine to me. We will fix this for the next release, so it would
just hang around until then.

   Matt


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