[petsc-dev] download problem p4est on Cori at NERSC

[Satish Balay]

I don't understand autoconf well enough for cross compiling. Some
packages appear to require this - but others don't.

https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Hosts-and-Cross_002dCompilation.html

So one would run 'config.guess' script on the compute node - and use this value on the compile node with configure?

I don't know how we could automate that..

Satish

On Wed, 15 Feb 2017, Mark Adams wrote:

> OK, that did not work. It says something about --host now.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 5:06 PM, Mark Adams <mfadams at lbl.gov> wrote:
> 
> > I think this will work because I have git when I configure on a login node
> > (Haswell). I build KNL by submitting a batch script (it takes to long to
> > fit in 30 minutes of an interactive session). That fails because git is not
> > available (can I just load the module ...) on a KNL compute node. It is
> > reconfiguring now, I'll let you know if it fails.
> > Thanks,
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 4:59 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> >
> >> Sorry - this won't work - as p4est appears to require git [submodules?]..
> >>
> >> >>>>>>>>>>>> p4est.py <<<<<<<<<<<<<
> >>   def updateGitDir(self):
> >>     config.package.GNUPackage.updateGitDir(self)
> >>     Dir = self.getDir()
> >>     try:
> >>       libsc = self.libsc
> >>     except AttributeError:
> >>       try:
> >>         self.executeShellCommand([self.sourceControl.git, 'submodule',
> >> 'update', '--init'], cwd=Dir, log=self.log)
> >>         import os
> >>         if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(Dir,'sc','README')):
> >>           self.libsc = os.path.join(Dir,'sc')
> >>         else:
> >>           raise RuntimeError
> >>       except RuntimeError:
> >>         raise RuntimeError('Could not initialize sc submodule needed by
> >> p4est')
> >>     return
> >> <<<<<<
> >>
> >> Satish
> >>
> >> On Wed, 15 Feb 2017, Satish Balay wrote:
> >>
> >> > batch won't help here. its git vs tarball - and p4est curently doesn't
> >> have a taball.
> >> >
> >> > The following should give you a tarball - if you don't have git.
> >> >
> >> > diff --git a/config/BuildSystem/config/packages/p4est.py
> >> b/config/BuildSystem/config/packages/p4est.py
> >> > index 4735ff4..1f9507c 100644
> >> > --- a/config/BuildSystem/config/packages/p4est.py
> >> > +++ b/config/BuildSystem/config/packages/p4est.py
> >> > @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ class Configure(config.package.GNUPackage):
> >> >    def __init__(self, framework):
> >> >      config.package.GNUPackage.__init__(self, framework)
> >> >      self.gitcommit         = 'v2.0'
> >> > -    self.download          = ['git://https://github.com/cbu
> >> rstedde/p4est']
> >> > +    self.download          = ['git://https://github.com/cbu
> >> rstedde/p4est','https://github.com/cburstedde/p4est/archive/
> >> '+self.gitcommit+'.tar.gz']
> >> >      self.functions         = ['p4est_init']
> >> >      self.includes          = ['p4est_bits.h']
> >> >      self.liblist           = [['libp4est.a', 'libsc.a']]
> >> >
> >> > I  can push this to master.
> >> >
> >> > Satish
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, 15 Feb 2017, Mark Adams wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Oh, this is because git does not work on KNL. Maybe I should do
> >> > > with-batch=1,
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Mark Adams <mfadams at lbl.gov> wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > > I get this error on the KNL partition at NERSC.  P4est works on the
> >> > > > Haswell partition and other downloads seem to work on the KNL
> >> partition.
> >> > > > Any ideas?
> >> > > >
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
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