[petsc-users] hypre

[Satish Balay]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Matthew Knepley wrote:

> 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?

Grep is a good tool to pipe configure output.

> >
> 
> Okay, no one replied to my other suggestion. How about
> 
>   ./configure --help Hypre
> 
> prints only help for the Hypre section

I'm fine with this as long as --help also prints it. One can obtain a
better 'section help' with grep [unless you are implementing 'grep i'
features with the above]

For eg:

configure --help |grep -i url [should get all download-pacakge URLs]

Satish


> 
>    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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