[petsc-users] minor error message compiling

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 8 Aug 2012, Nachiket Gokhale wrote:

> I just upgraded to 3.3 and while compiling I get the following error:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/opt/petsc/petsc-3.3-p2/bin/petscnagupgrade.py", line 54, in <module>
>     petscdir = os.environ['PETSC_DIR']
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/UserDict.py", line 23, in __getitem__
>     raise KeyError(key)
> KeyError: 'PETSC_DIR'
> make: [petscnagupgrade] Error 1 (ignored)
> 
> Seems to occur only when the env variable PETSC_DIR is not defined;
> the program seems to compile properly inspite of this error.

Hm petscnagupgrade.py is primarily invoked by make - and when using
PETSc makefiles - PETSC_DIR is always set - so I'm not sure why you
get this error.

Are you using PETSc makefiles? What make are you using? [gnu/ bsd/solaris?]

Does the attached patch fix it?

patch -Np1 < petscnag.patch

Satish
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diff --git a/bin/petscnagupgrade.py b/bin/petscnagupgrade.py
--- a/bin/petscnagupgrade.py
+++ b/bin/petscnagupgrade.py
@@ -51,7 +51,12 @@
 #
 #
 if __name__ ==  '__main__': 
-  petscdir = os.environ['PETSC_DIR']
+  if os.environ.has_key('PETSC_DIR'):
+    petscdir = os.environ['PETSC_DIR']
+  elif os.path.exists(os.path.join('.', 'include', 'petscversion.h')):
+    petscdir  = '.'
+  else:
+    sys.exit(0)
   file     = os.path.join(petscdir,'.nagged')
   if not naggedtoday(file):
     currentversion(petscdir)