[petsc-users] trouble installing petsc 3.1-p8 on centos 4.8

[John Schmidt]

Hi,

Thanks so much for this explanation.  Right now our Uintah software doesn't 
support the petsc 3.2  due to some slight api changes that have been made, so 
we are using an older version of petsc.  

Hopefully, Edward will be able to get petsc built with your suggestions.

Thanks once again.

John

On Thursday 17 November 2011 9:59:41 AM Satish Balay wrote:
> Configure Options: --configModules=PETSc.Configure
> --optionsModule=PETSc.compilerOptions --with-shared --with-debugging=0
> --with-batch --with-mpi-dir=/home/edward/MPM/openmpi-1.4.4/build2
> 
> > Must give a default value for known-mpi-shared since executables cannot
> > be run
> 
> Well - as the message says - configure needs the user to tell it if
> mpi libraries are shared or not. i.e specify -known-mpi-shared=1 [or
> 0]. When --with-batch option is used - configure can't do 'run tests'
> to determin this itself.
> 
> But I think the primary issue is - the openmpi install is
> broken. Hence you might gotten a message about - "can't run binaries -
> suggest using --with-batch"
> 
> This is because oenmpi install is broken until you set the following
> [as per openmpi installation instructions]
> 
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/edward/MPM/openmpi-1.4.4/build2/lib
> 
> petsc-3.2 works arround this user-unfriendly feature.
> 
> Satish
> 
> On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, John Schmidt wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have a collegue that is trying to install petsc 3.1-p8 on centos 4.8.
> > Centos 4.8 is using the gcc-3.4.5 compilers.  He installed openmpi-1.4.4
> > and that seems to work with our Uintah software, however, he is having
> > issues with the petsc build.  Attached is his configure.log that
> > hopefully will help in diagnosing the problem.  Any help is greatly
> > appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > John Schmidt
> > john.schmidt at utah.edu