[petsc-users] hypre

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
> On Mar 22, 2011, at 11:22 AM, Satish Balay wrote:
>
> > If --download-package doesn't work - it prints the URL of the package.
> >
> > If we need to document this further - 'configure --help' should print
> > the defulat URLs for packages.
>
>   Yes it should print it!  The problem is that --help also prints a ton of
> stuff that gets confusing and in the way of important things. Better way to
> organize the output?
>

Okay, no one replied to my other suggestion. How about

  ./configure --help Hypre

prints only help for the Hypre section

   Matt


>  Barry
>
>
> > Satish
> >
> > On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Barry Smith wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>  We need to make the specific tar file version more transparent:
> >>
> >>  When the tarball is generated should a nice list of the tarballs for
> each external packages be automatically generated and put somehow in the
> document? Should we have a tool that extracts that information from the
> appropriate XXX.py upon request? How to tell people about this tool? If we
> have to tell them about the tool we might as just well tell them to look in
> the appropriate config/PETSc/packages/XXXX.py or
> config/BuildSystem/config/packagesXXX.py directly?
> >>
> >>   Barry
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mar 22, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Satish Balay wrote:
> >>
> >>> Which version of PETSc are you using? The URL for hypre is listed in
> >>> config/PETSc/packages/hypre.py - for any given version of petsc.
> >>>
> >>> for petsc-3.1 its:
> http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/externalpackages/hypre-2.6.0b.tar.gz
> >>>
> >>> Satish
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Verena Kuhlemann wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> I was wondering which version of HYPRE one should use with Petsc. I
> need to
> >>>> download it before
> >>>> the configuration of Petsc as --download-hypre=1 is not working for
> me.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Verena
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>


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