[petsc-dev] Building Sowing fails with old system gcc

[Blaise A Bourdin]

Hi,

Building sowing fails when I try to compile petsc on a RHEL7 system with the default gcc (4.8.5) and intel compilers.
Looking at the log file and sowing.py, it looks like sowing configure step does not inherit from the compilers detected by BuildSystem at an earlier stage, so that instead of using the intel compilers, it pulls my ancient gcc.

Instead of having to clumsily add --download-sowing-cc=mpicc --download-sowing-cxx=mpicxx to the configure options, would it make sense to populate the CC, CXX, CPP, CXXPP configure options (sowing.py:40-47) with the PETSc compilers? I can do it if that is OK.

Regards,
Blaise
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