[petsc-users] minor error message compiling

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 8 Aug 2012, Nachiket Gokhale wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Yes your attached patch fixes it. Thanks!
> 
> I should have been more clear. The problem occured not while compiling
> PETSc but a small SlepC application. I am including
> 
> include    ${SLEPC_DIR}/conf/slepc_common
> 
> in my Makefile and relying on it to include PETSC variables.
> 
> I have a standard Redhat Enterprise Linux system.

Ok. Its still not clear to me whats causing this error. Without
PETSC_DIR set - how was your make able to get all the way to running
'/opt/petsc/petsc-3.3-p2/bin/petscnagupgrade.py' [because PETSC_DIR
was used to locate petscnagupgrade.py at the above path].

Satish