[petsc-users] Problems with configure

[Barry Smith]

  Please send configure.log from the PETSc directory to petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov

   Barry

On Dec 17, 2011, at 6:05 PM, Modhurita Mitra wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to install PETSc while downloading MPICH, but I am facing problems running the configure script. Some errors from the configure.log file are:
> 
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>          UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS    (see configure.log for details):
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> Error running configure on MPICH: Could not execute "cd /export/home/modhurit/soft/petsc-3.2-p5/externalpackages/mpich2-1.4.1p1 && ./configure --prefix=/export/home/modhurit/soft/petsc-3.2-p5/arch-linux2-c-debug CC="gcc" CFLAGS=" -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wno-strict-aliasing -Wno-unknown-pragmas -g3 " --disable-cxx --disable-fc F77="g77" FFLAGS=" -Wall -Wno-unused-variable -g  " --with-device=ch3:sock --without-mpe --with-pm=hydra --enable-g=meminit --enable-fast":
> Configuring MPICH2 version 1.4.1p1 with  '--prefix=/export/home/modhurit/soft/petsc-3.2-p5/arch-linux2-c-debug' 'CC=gcc' 'CFLAGS= -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wno-strict-aliasing -Wno-unknown-pragmas -g3 ' '--disable-cxx' '--disable-fc' 'F77=g77' 'FFLAGS= -Wall -Wno-unused-variable -g  ' '--with-device=ch3:sock' '--without-mpe' '--with-pm=hydra' '--enable-g=meminit' '--enable-fast'
> Running on system: Linux faraday 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Nov 9 12:54:40 EST 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
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> 
> /export/home/modhurit/soft/petsc-3.2-p5/externalpackages/mpich2-1.4.1p1/src/mpl/configure: line 7850: /scr/faraday/modhurit/matlab/RM: is a directory
> mkdir: cannot create directory `conftest': File exists
> /export/home/modhurit/soft/petsc-3.2-p5/externalpackages/mpich2-1.4.1p1/src/mpl/configure: line 7877: cd: conftest: Not a directory
> mkdir: cannot create directory `out': File exists
> 
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> 
> /export/home/modhurit/soft/petsc-3.2-p5/externalpackages/mpich2-1.4.1p1/src/mpl/configure: line 7913: /scr/faraday/modhurit/matlab/RM: is a directory
> cat: confdefs.h: No such file or directory
> configure: error: Version information not found. Configuration aborted.
> configure: error: MPL configure failed
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> 
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> 
>   File "/export/home/modhurit/soft/petsc-3.2-p5/config/BuildSystem/config/packages/MPI.py", line 528, in InstallMPICH
>     raise RuntimeError('Error running configure on MPICH: '+str(e))
> 
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> 
> What might be going wrong? 
> 
> Thanks,
> Modhurita