[petsc-users] petsc building error on mac 10.8

Barry Smith bsmith at mcs.anl.gov
Mon Aug 13 09:33:39 CDT 2012


   For these problems you NEED to send the entire configure.log file to petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov  There is no way we can guess the problem with this little information.

   Barry

On Aug 13, 2012, at 9:09 AM, Kyunghoon Lee <aeronova.mailing at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I got the following error when I try to build petsc on mac os x 10.8 (mountain lion)  --- it failed at MPICH:
> 
> ===============================================================================
>              Configuring PETSc to compile on your system                       
> ===============================================================================
> ===============================================================================                 
> ***** WARNING: CC found in enviornment variables - ignoring ******                  ===============================================================================           ===============================================================================                
>  ***** WARNING: CXX found in enviornment variables - ignoring ******                 ===============================================================================           ===============================================================================                
>  Running configure on MPICH; this may take several minutes                           ===============================================================================           ===============================================================================                 
> Running make on MPICH; this may take several minutes                                ===============================================================================                                                                                                     *******************************************************************************
>          UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS    (see configure.log for details):
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Error running make; make install on MPICH: Could not execute "cd /Users/aeronova/Development/local/share/petsc/3.3-p2/externalpackages/mpich2-1.4.1p1 && make && make install":
> Beginning make
> .....
> Make completed
> Remove /Users/aeronova/Development/local/share/petsc/3.3-p2/arch-darwin-cxx-debug-real/lib/libmpich.dylib and rerun make install
> Remove /Users/aeronova/Development/local/share/petsc/3.3-p2/arch-darwin-cxx-debug-real/lib/libpmpich.dylib and rerun make install
> libtool: install: warning: remember to run `libtool --finish /Users/aeronova/Development/local/share/petsc/3.3-p2/arch-darwin-cxx-debug-real/lib'
> libtool: install: warning: remember to run `libtool --finish /Users/aeronova/Development/local/share/petsc/3.3-p2/arch-darwin-cxx-debug-real/lib'
> make: *** [install-preamble] Error 1
> 
> This error is confusing since there are a bunch of warnings without an error message.  My configuration options are
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/Users/aeronova/Development/local/lib/petsc/3.3-p2-real --download-mpich=1 --download-blacs=1 --download-metis=1 --download-parmetis=1 --download-scalapack=1 --download-mumps=1 --download-umfpack=1 --with-clanguage=C++
> 
> I'd appreciate it if anyone can help me with this error.
> 
> Regards,
> K. Lee.



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