[petsc-dev] [petsc-users] Error during PETSc build on Edison

[Smith, Barry F.]

  src/snes/examples/tutorials/ex19.c



> On Feb 1, 2018, at 11:11 AM, Amneet Bhalla <mail2amneet at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Got it. What example should I try to see PETSc is working?
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> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 9:00 AM Smith, Barry F. <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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> ex3.c has
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>    ierr = PetscViewerDrawOpen(PETSC_COMM_WORLD,0,0,0,0,400,400,&monP.viewer);CHKERRQ(ierr);
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> so it is going to require that some Draw implementation is available. Since PETSc was apparently configure explicitly without support for x windows there is no Draw support hence the code has to stop with an error message. In other words this example requires X
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>   Barry
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> > On Feb 1, 2018, at 10:51 AM, Amneet Bhalla <mail2amneet at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am getting this if I run snes/examples/tutorial/ex3 manually in interactive session.
> >
> > [ex3 is a placeholder]
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 8:46 AM Smith, Barry F. <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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> >   Where are you getting these errors from? Some PETSc tests? Your own code?
> >
> >
> > > On Feb 1, 2018, at 10:32 AM, Amneet Bhalla <mail2amneet at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Ok, and how to get rid of runtime error like
> > >
> > > [0]PETSC ERROR: PETSc installed without X windows, Microsoft Graphics, OpenGL ES, or GLUT/OpenGL on this machine
> > >
> > >
> > > configure with --with-x=0?
> > >
> > > On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 8:06 AM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 1 Feb 2018, Amneet Bhalla wrote:
> > >
> > > > P.S: I was also mucking with cray-petsc. However, I could not use it
> > > > in my application. Cray-petsc is built with parallel hdf5 and some
> > > > of the libraries I need use serial hdf5. At runtime, the application
> > > > picks parallel hdf5 and the application crashes :-(. I tried this on
> > > > my laptop also and got the same result.
> > > >
> > > > I think the only way out is to build my own version of PETSc without
> > > > (parallel) hdf5.
> > >
> > > Sure - its best to install petsc from source - for such special requirements.
> > >
> > > Satish
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> > >
> > > --
> > > --Amneet
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> > --
> > --Amneet
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> -- 
> --Amneet 
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