Version of Mpi and fblaslapack

[Trivedi, Jagruti CIV 470000D, 474300D]

Satish,

That is not the point. The question is how to find out which version of
compilers such as gcc(or c ) , C++ mpicc , mpif77 is needed for petsc
2.2.1, 2.3.0, 2.3.2 etc?

I do not want to find out after the fact that oh I needed so and so
compiler version.

If possible, can this information be listed as part of Release Notes? If
this information is already available, can you point me to the right
place.

Thanks,

...Jagruti 
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov
[mailto:owner-petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Satish Balay
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 7:23
To: petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: Re: Version of Mpi and fblaslapack

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Mads Hoel wrote:
> 
> I found out that linking PETSc with another library (Diffpack) 
> compiled with different versions of MPI will crash when calling 
> InitializePetsc(...). My solution was to drop running config/configure

> with --download-mpi option, but have MPI point to the correct 
> installation of MPI using the --with-mpi-dir=/path/to/mpi option.

Yes - you cannot mix 2 different versions of MPI [or any other package]
to create a single binary. This is equvalent to using include files from
package-version1 - and linking with package-version2. [which is
obviously wrong.]

In the same way, its best to install ALL packages that go into a binary
with the same compiler set [c,c++,fortran].

Usually compilers & MPI are the basic blocks that many external packages
use, so in this case one can first install MPI [with the correct desired
compilers]. And then install all other packages [used by the
application] with the MPI wrappers.

And all external packages built by PETSc will use the compilers/MPI
specified to PETSc.

./config/configure.py --with-cc=mpicc --with-fc=mpif90 or the shortcut
equivalent of the above:
./config/configure.py --with-mpi-dir=

Satish