[petsc-dev] pnetcdf is a big problem

[Matthew Knepley]

Blaise really wants to write in parallel. It would be better to use HDF5,
but evidently
it is broken in ExodusII. Thats what we get for using something from
Sandia. They
finally have their revenge.

   Matt

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 5:53 PM, Smith, Barry F. <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
>   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:
> >
> > parallel-netcdf-1.9.0.pre1/INSTALL has:
> >
> >>>>>>>>
> >
> > 4. Reporting Installation or Usage Problems
> > ===========================================
> >
> > Please send an email to parallel-netcdf at mcs.anl.gov
> >
> > <<<<<<
> >
> > We'll have to send in these bug reports.
> >
> > Satish
> >
> >
> > 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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