[petsc-dev] pnetcdf is a big problem

[Smith, Barry F.]

  Do you really need to use pnetcdf? No one uses it and what usefulness does it really provide, best to be avoided.

   Barry


> On Dec 19, 2017, at 1:12 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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> parallel-netcdf-1.9.0.pre1/INSTALL has:
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> 4. Reporting Installation or Usage Problems
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> Please send an email to parallel-netcdf at mcs.anl.gov
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> We'll have to send in these bug reports.
> 
> Satish
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> On Tue, 19 Dec 2017, Matthew Knepley wrote:
> 
>> The configure is broken, perhaps beyond fixing. I need to give --with-mpi
>> to get anything
>> to work because the way it checks for MPI is screwed up. I will see if I
>> can throw away all its idiotic configure stuff in favor of just telling it
>> everything, but I am not eager to depend on something so rickety.
>> 
>>   Matt
>> 
>> 
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