[petsc-dev] HDF5 download error

[Satish Balay]

The fix for broken hdf5 url is in 'balay/update-hdf5-url/maint'.

Or you can do:

--download-hdf5=https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/prev-releases/hdf5-1.8/hdf5-1.8.18/src/hdf5-1.8.18.tar.gz

Satish

On Wed, 20 Jun 2018, Karl Rupp wrote:

> Hi Mark,
> 
> the FTP server at MCS is down today. It should come back up later today.
> 
> Best regards,
> Karli
> 
> On 06/20/2018 01:17 PM, Mark Adams wrote:
> > This looks like it is a problem with NERSC, this does not work:
> > 
> > 04:14 cori04 maint= ~/petsc_install/petsc$ ping ftp.mcs.anl.gov
> > <http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov>
> > PING ftp.mcs.anl.gov <http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov> (140.221.6.23) 56(84) bytes of
> > data.
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 7:08 AM Mark Adams <mfadams at lbl.gov
> > <mailto:mfadams at lbl.gov>> wrote:
> > 
> >     I get this error downloading HDF5 on Cori at NERSC and it has worked
> >     before. This is on maint.
> > 
> >     =============================================================================== 
> >                                                                         
> >                     =============================================================================== 
> >                                                                         
> >                           Trying to download
> >     https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/current18/src/hdf5-1.8.18.tar.gz
> >     for HDF5                                                           
> >       =============================================================================== 
> >                                                                             
> >                 
> >      =============================================================================== 
> >                                                                             
> >                        Trying to download
> >      http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/externalpackages/hdf5-1.8.18.tar.gz
> >      for HDF5                                                             
> >       =============================================================================== 
> >                                                                             
> >                 
> >      =============================================================================== 
> >                                                                             
> >                        Trying to download
> >      ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/externalpackages/hdf5-1.8.18.tar.gz for
> >      HDF5                                                               
> >      =============================================================================== 
> >                                                                             
> >                                                                             
> >                                                                             
> >                                     
> >       *******************************************************************************
> >               UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS    (see
> >     configure.log for details):
> >     -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >     Error during download/extract/detection of HDF5:
> >     file could not be opened successfully
> >     Downloaded package HDF5 from:
> >     https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/current18/src/hdf5-1.8.18.tar.gz
> >     is not a tarball.
> >     [or installed python cannot process compressed files]
> >     * If you are behind a firewall - please fix your proxy and rerun
> >     ./configure
> >       For example at LANL you may need to set the environmental
> >     variable http_proxy (or HTTP_PROXY?) to http://proxyout.lanl.gov
> >     * You can run with --with-packages-dir=/adirectory and ./configure
> >     will instruct you what packages to download manually
> >     * or you can download the above URL manually, to
> >     /yourselectedlocation/hdf5-1.8.18.tar.gz
> >        and use the configure option:
> >        --download-hdf5=/yourselectedlocation/hdf5-1.8.18.tar.gz
> >     Unable to download package HDF5 from:
> >     http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/externalpackages/hdf5-1.8.18.tar.gz
> >     * If URL specified manually - perhaps there is a typo?
> >     * If your network is disconnected - please reconnect and rerun
> >     ./configure
> >     * Or perhaps you have a firewall blocking the download
> >     * You can run with --with-packages-dir=/adirectory and ./configure
> >     will instruct you what packages to download manually
> >     * or you can download the above URL manually, to
> >     /yourselectedlocation/hdf5-1.8.18.tar.gz
> >        and use the configure option:
> >        --download-hdf5=/yourselectedlocation/hdf5-1.8.18.tar.gz
> >     Unable to download package HDF5 from:
> >     ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/externalpackages/hdf5-1.8.18.tar.gz
> >     * If URL specified manually - perhaps there is a typo?
> >     * If your network is disconnected - please reconnect and rerun
> >     ./configure
> >     * Or perhaps you have a firewall blocking the download
> >     * You can run with --with-packages-dir=/adirectory and ./configure
> >     will instruct you what packages to download manually
> >     * or you can download the above URL manually, to
> >     /yourselectedlocation/hdf5-1.8.18.tar.gz
> >        and use the configure option:
> >        --download-hdf5=/yourselectedlocation/hdf5-1.8.18.tar.gz
> >     *******************************************************************************
> > 
> 
>