[petsc-users] compilation with mumps on Mac OS 10.6.8

[Barry Smith]

On Sep 6, 2011, at 10:41 PM, Kyunghoon Lee wrote:

> Hi Barry,
> 
> Thanks for the reply.  I did install g95 through macports. (I could not find gfortran.)  I wonder g95 can do the job for me.
> 
    g95 might work, give it a try. BTW: on Macs you don't need to provide blas/lapack with --download; Apple provides them on the system.



> Re SuperLU_Dist, all I know is I need mumps to deal with complex numbers.  

   SuperLU_Dist can also be used with complex numbers (at least with PETSc-dev/petsc-3.2) 

> 
> K. Lee.
> 
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> > p.s.
> > I do not need to compile petsc for FORTRAN.
> 
>  Sadly you do because the packages MUMPS uses are all Fortran.
> 
>   So you will need a real Fortran compiler (perhaps gfortran) and you will also need --download-blacs and you cannot use --download-c-blas-lapack with scalapack.
> 
>   Note you can use SuperLU_Dist instead of MUMPS without a Fortran compiler.
> 
>   Barry
> 
> On Sep 6, 2011, at 10:17 PM, Kyunghoon Lee wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I need to compile petsc with mumps.  First I tried
> >
> > ./configure --prefix=/Users/aeronova/Development/local/lib64/petsc/petsc-3.1-p8  --download-c-blas-lapack=1 —download-parmetis=1 --download-scalapack=1 --download-mumps=1
> >
> > but I got the following message:
> >
> > Fortran error! mpif.h could not be located at: []
> >
> > So I included "-download-mpich=1," then I got the following:
> >
> > Should request f-blas-lapack, not --download-c-blas-lapack=yes since you have a fortran compiler?
> >
> > After that, I tried several options with/without --download-f-blas-lapack or --download-mpich=1, but none of them worked out.  I'd appreciate it if someone can help me with this compilation problem with mumps.
> >
> > Regards,
> > K. Lee.
> >
> > p.s.
> > I do not need to compile petsc for FORTRAN.
> >
> 
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