installation problems in mac machine

[Matthew Knepley]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Dominik Szczerba <dominik at itis.ethz.ch>wrote:

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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).
>

Not sure why you would think that. In fact, sudo is the safe way to do
things
and recommended for everyday usage.

  Matt


> 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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