[petsc-dev] [petsc-users] PETSc Make error

[Barry Smith]

  If PETSc requires distutils.sysconfig then ./Configure should check for it and print a very useful error message if it does not find it. 

  We can't have python crashes off at build time with confusing error messages that users cannot decipher.

  Barry


> On Jul 31, 2020, at 11:00 AM, Satish Balay via petsc-users <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> You still get this error message - so its likely not installed. To confirm you [and the admin] can run:
> 
> python3  -c "import distutils.sysconfig"
> 
> [and see if you get an error or not]
> 
> You can also try python2 as I suggested in my earlier e-mail [if distutils is installed for python2]
> 
> python2  -c "import distutils.sysconfig"
> 
> python2 ./configure ...
> 
> Satish
> 
> 
> On Fri, 31 Jul 2020, Eda Oktay wrote:
> 
>> Dear Matt,
>> 
>> Administrator installed python3-dib-utils but still I am getting the
>> same error message. I attached configure.log and make.log again.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Eda
>> 
>> Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>, 31 Tem 2020 Cum, 13:20 tarihinde
>> şunu yazdı:
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 4:15 AM Eda Oktay <eda.oktay at metu.edu.tr> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Dear Satish,
>>>> 
>>>> I configured petsc-3.13.2. Is this still the same problem?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Yes, you need the distutils package installed.
>>> 
>>>  Thanks,
>>> 
>>>     Matt
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> 
>>>> Eda
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2020, 10:50 AM Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>  File "./config/gmakegen.py", line 4, in <module>
>>>>>    from distutils.sysconfig import parse_makefile
>>>>> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.sysconfig'
>>>>> <<<<<
>>>>> 
>>>>> For one - if you used petsc-3.13.3 - it would have also tried python2 - or given a reasonable error message.
>>>>> 
>>>>> If you have python2 - you can try:
>>>>> 
>>>>> python2 ./configure ...
>>>>> 
>>>>> Or you can ask sysadmin on this machine to install python3-distutils or equivalent package.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Satish
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, 31 Jul 2020, Eda Oktay wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I configured petsc-3.13.2 with following options:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> ./configure --with-cc=gcc --with-cxx=g++ --with-fc=gfortran
>>>>>> --download-mpich --download-openblas --download-metis
>>>>>> --download-parmetis --download-chaco --download-slepc --with-X=1
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> However, I got a make error.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I attached make.log and configure.log, how can I fix that problem?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Eda
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.
>>> -- Norbert Wiener
>>> 
>>> https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/
>>