installation problems in mac machine

[Dominik Szczerba]

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Why use sudo in the first place?
I am not a mac user, but normally on unix sudo is the last thing you
want to use during everyday work (provided that you are at all allowed
to use it).

Dominik

Satish Balay wrote:
> Perhaps 'sudo' is not proegating PETSC_DIR,PETSC_ARCH variables
> properly?
> 
> Try 'sudo /bin/bash' and do the whole install in that shell.
> 
> BTW: you have a typo with PETSC_ARCH further down..  And we recommend
> using COPTFLAGS, FOPTFLAGS --with-debugging=0 for optimziation builds.
> 
> Satish
> 
> On Mon, 21 Dec 2009, hxie at umn.edu wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> My operation system is Mac OS X 10.6.2. I unzip the petsc under
>> /usr/local/petsc-3.0.0-p10.
>> I use the following to configure petsc.
>> -------
>> sudo ./config/configure.py --CFLAGS=-O3 --FFLAGS=-O3
>> --with-mpi-dir=/usr/local/mpich2-1.2.1 --with-fortran --with-shared=0
>> --with-fc=gfortran
>> -------
>>
>> And I run the following commands:
>> ----
>> export PETS_ARCH=darwin10.2.0-c-debug;
>> PETSC_DIR=/usr/local/petsc-3.0.0-p10; export PETSC_DIR
>> ----
>>
>> When I run " sudo make all", it gives some errors:
>> -----
>> makefile:15: /conf/base: No such file or directory
>> makefile:16: /conf/test: No such file or directory
>> make: *** No rule to make target `/conf/test'.  Stop.
>> -----
>>
>> It seems it cannot find the PETSC_DIR. (I use x11. "echo $SHELL" gets
>> "/bin/bash")
>> Do I need to add "PETSC_DIR = /usr/local/petsc-3.0.0-p10" in the makefile
>> file? Thanks.
>>
>> Bests,
>> Hui
>>
>>
>>
>>
> 

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