building petsc on a POWER5+ machine

[Satish Balay]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Thomas Geenen wrote:

> oke maybe i did not explain it clear enough.
> i already build petsc with support for hypre and mumps the more or
> less default way. yes you will have to do a lot of tweaking but that
> went oke.
> The problem was that in this version Mumps would hang in the
> factorisation phase.

Please try rebuilding with the following - and see if the hang goes away.

--with-fc='mpxlf_r -qnosave' --download-mumps=1 --download-blacs=1 --download-scalapack=1

You might have to do 'rm -rf externalpackages' before attempting this.

Satish