[petsc-dev] Error while compiling petsc-dev

[Tabrez Ali]

Thanks! I will now make sure to delete $PETSC_ARCH before updating 
petsc-dev (only done occasionally).

Tabrez

On 11/01/2015 03:42 PM, Barry Smith wrote:
>    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>