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

[Barry Smith]

   The best long term fix is to find out what things p4est needs to determine by a running a program and providing them some other way.

  Toby

   So what things is p4est trying to determine by running a program?

  Barry



> On Feb 16, 2017, at 3:25 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> 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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