[petsc-dev] configure error

[Barry Smith]

> On Dec 29, 2016, at 10:03 AM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> I suspect blaslpack along with mpi cannot be installed in batch mode anymore.

   This is nuts!  It should be able to build blaslapack. And it certainly shouldn't just chug along without a big error message instead of pretending the option was not set.

   Presumably batchBodies is only set before the reconfigure?

   So here it skips the download before, that is ok,

  def checkDownload(self):
    '''Check if we should download the package, returning the install directory or the empty string indicating installation'''
    if not self.download:
      return ''
    if self.framework.batchBodies:
      return

   Here it skips configure, and if this is only the first time it is ok

  def configure(self):
    if self.download and self.argDB['download-'+self.downloadname.lower()] and not self.framework.batchBodies:
      self.argDB['with-'+self.package] = 1

   These are the only two mentions of batch in package.py so maybe batchBodies is always set? Then we need a different way
to know if it is before or after the reconfigure.

 Barry


> 
> [at some point all pacakges were installed before reconfigure. And I think this was
> switched to - install packages during reconfigure. Ideally there should be proper
> dependencies on the 'batch' part - so that only packages that require info from the
> batch run should get installed during reconfigure stage..]
> 
> BTW: Why use --download-fblaslapack on cray? [and not system blas - like cray-libsci]
> 
> Satish
> 
> On Thu, 29 Dec 2016, Mark Adams wrote:
> 
>> --with-batch=0 seems to fix the problem.
>> 
>> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 4:40 AM, Mark Adams <mfadams at lbl.gov> wrote:
>> 
>>> BTW, I cloned this (working) config file and changed to single precision
>>> and 32 bit ints, and added with-batch=1.
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 11:20 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I can reproduce this issue. [we don't notice it normally because
>>>> default system blas is usually found - so there is no error..]
>>>> 
>>>> Satish
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, 28 Dec 2016, Barry Smith wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>  Mark,
>>>>> 
>>>>>   Yes this is odd. You clearly have --download-fblaslapack=1  but then
>>>> in the file it has
>>>>> 
>>>>> TEST alternateConfigureLibrary from config.packages.fblaslapack(/g
>>>> lobal/u2/m/madams/petsc/config/BuildSystem/config/package.py:761)
>>>>> TESTING: alternateConfigureLibrary from config.packages.fblaslapack(co
>>>> nfig/BuildSystem/config/package.py:761)
>>>>>  Called if --with-packagename=0; does nothing by default
>>>>> 
>>>>>   I suggest try removing all options except the
>>>> --download-fblaslapack=1 and the compiler names and the --with-batch and
>>>> see if it goes through. Do not cut and past but type each argument; it
>>>> could be some strange character being pass in you cannot see.
>>>>> 
>>>>>   Barry
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Dec 28, 2016, at 9:52 PM, Mark Adams <mfadams at lbl.gov> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I am getting an error about blas-lapack, suggesting that I download
>>>> it, but I seem to be asking to download it. Not sure what the problem is ...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> <configure.log>
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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