[petsc-users] Error in Petsc configuration

[Matthew Knepley]

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 2:40 AM, behzad baghapour <
behzad.baghapour at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
>> Are you sure these packages are installed at these locations?  Did you
>> install them manually?
>>
>
> Note: If this is a location from previous --dowload-mpich
>> --download-hypre --download-parms builds - then these dirs just have
>> sources - and not installs. One should continue to use the --download
>> option [even though the sources are already downloaded]
>>
>> Yes. I exactly configured first with --download-XXX. Then How I should
> configure if the next configurations will not need to download the packages
> again?
>

Just use --download-<package> and it will find that existing download and
not retrieve it again.

   Matt


> Thank you very much.
>
>
>> If you still have issues - correspond with petsc-maint with the
>> appropriate configure.log
>>
>> Satish
>>
>> On Sat, 17 Dec 2011, behzad baghapour wrote:
>>
>> > Dear Developers,
>> >
>> > I want to configure Petsc with given path for the external packages:
>> >
>> > ./configure
>> >
>> --with-f2cblaslapack-dir=/home/behzad/softs/petsc/externalpackages/f2cblaslapack-3.1.1.q
>> > --with-mpi-dir=/home/behzad/softs/petsc/externalpackages/mpich2-1.4.1p1
>> > --with-hypre-dir=/home/behzad/softs/petsc/externalpackages/hypre-2.7.0b
>> > --with-parms-dir=/home/behzad/softs/petsc/externalpackages/pARMS_3.2
>> > --with-debugging=no --with-cxx=g++ -with-clanguage=cxx
>>
>> >
>> >  but I received the error:
>> >
>> >
>> *******************************************************************************
>> >          UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS    (see configure.log
>> for
>> > details):
>> >
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > --with-mpi-dir=/home/behzad/softs/petsc/externalpackages/mpich2-1.4.1p1
>> did
>> > not work
>> >
>> *******************************************************************************
>> >
>> > and the procedure was terminated. I know I may in wrong way, please
>> show me
>> > how should be the configuring in this matter??
>> >
>> > Thanks a lot,
>> > BehZad
>> >
>>
>>
>


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