Installing Petsc

[Satish Balay]

Can you send such installation issues to petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov with
the complete configure.log file as attachment?

>>
> Possible ERROR while running linker: gcc: opción '-PIC' no reconocida
> gcc: opción '-PIC' no reconocida
<<

Perhaps configure misbehaves with non-english output from some of the
tools it invokes..

Satish


On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, antonio albiñana crespo wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I'm new in this world, and I'm trying to install Petsc in order to develop
> my final studies project. I have received a few error messages and I have
> tried to study the configure.log file:
> 
>               Popping language C
> *********************************************************************************
>          UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS    (see configure.log for
> details):
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Downloaded mpi could not be used. Please check install in
> /new/proyecto/PETSc/petsc-2.3.3-p8/externalpackages/mpich2-1.0.5p4
> /linux-gnu-c-debug
> *********************************************************************************
>   File "./config/configure.py", line 190, in petsc_configure
>     framework.configure(out = sys.stdout)
>   File "/home/ubuntu/Escritorio/PETSc/petsc-2.3.3-p8/python/BuildSystem/config/framework.py",
> line 878, in configure
>     child.configure()
>   File "/home/ubuntu/Escritorio/PETSc/petsc-2.3.3-p8/python/BuildSystem/config/package.py",
> line 380, in configure
>     self.executeTest(self.configureLibrary)
>   File "/home/ubuntu/Escritorio/PETSc/petsc-2.3.3-p8/python/BuildSystem/config/base.py",
> line 93, in executeTest
>     return apply(test, args,kargs)
>   File "/home/ubuntu/Escritorio/PETSc/petsc-2.3.3-p8/python/BuildSystem/config/packages/MPI.py",
> line 548, in configureLibrary
>     config.package.Package.configureLibrary(self)
>   File "/home/ubuntu/Escritorio/PETSc/petsc-2.3.3-p8/python/BuildSystem/config/package.py",
> line 331, in configureLibrary
>     for location, directory, lib, incl in self.generateGuesses():
>   File "/home/ubuntu/Escritorio/PETSc/petsc-2.3.3-p8/python/BuildSystem/config/package.py",
> line 160, in generateGuesses
>     raise RuntimeError('Downloaded '+self.package+' could not be used.
> Please check install in '+d+'\n')
> 
> I have seen many messages with:
> 
> Possible ERROR while running linker: gcc: opción '-PIC' no reconocida
> gcc: opción '-PIC' no reconocida
> 
> What am I doing wrongly?
> 
> I thank you beforehand for your attention.
>