[petsc-dev] Error while compiling petsc-dev

[Barry Smith]

  You need to remove $PETSC_ARCH completely and rerun configure

  Barry

> On Nov 1, 2015, at 3:38 PM, Tabrez Ali <stali at geology.wisc.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> I am getting the following error while compiling petsc-dev (just did git pull today, after a few weeks). The configure and make logs are attached.
> 
> In file included from /home/stali/petsc-dev/include/petscsys.h:120:0,
>                 from /home/stali/petsc-dev/src/dm/impls/plex/ftn-auto/plexdistributef.c:1:
> /home/stali/petsc-dev/src/dm/impls/plex/ftn-auto/plexdistributef.c: In function ‘dmplexdistributedata_’:
> /home/stali/petsc-dev/src/dm/impls/plex/ftn-auto/plexdistributef.c:172:15: error: invalid type argument of unary ‘*’ (have ‘MPI_Datatype’)
>  MPI_Type_f2c(*(datatype)),originalData,
>               ^
> /opt/mpich3/include/mpi.h:683:47: note: in definition of macro ‘MPI_Type_f2c’
> #define MPI_Type_f2c(datatype) (MPI_Datatype)(datatype)
>                                               ^
> gmakefile:161: recipe for target 'arch-linux2-c-opt/obj/src/dm/impls/plex/ftn-auto/plexdistributef.o' failed
> make[2]: *** [arch-linux2-c-opt/obj/src/dm/impls/plex/ftn-auto/plexdistributef.o] Error 1
> make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>          CC arch-linux2-c-opt/obj/src/dm/impls/plex/plexnatural.o
>          CC arch-linux2-c-opt/obj/src/dm/impls/plex/ftn-auto/plexgmshf.o
>          CC arch-linux2-c-opt/obj/src/dm/impls/plex/plexrefine.o
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/stali/petsc-dev'
> /home/stali/petsc-dev/lib/petsc/conf/rules:105: recipe for target 'gnumake' failed
> make[1]: *** [gnumake] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/stali/petsc-dev'
> 
> Tabrez
> 
> <configure.log.gz><make.log.gz>