[petsc-users] MatConvert behavior 3.1 vs 3.2

[Satish Balay]

On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Dominik Szczerba wrote:

> >> Immediately one suggestion: it would be nice to pull and build the
> >> external packages at option separately from the rest of petsc.
> >
> > ??? petsc configure already does this for you..
> >
> > [you don't have to build PETSc - after externalpacakges are built...]
> 
> But it breaks... 

what breaks? Send relavent logs to petsc-maint.

>  As I wrote above, I can fix it,

don't understand what the problme is - so don't understand what your fix is.

> but then re-running configure rebuilds my built version.

thats fine.

> Then I tried --with instead of --download, that resulted in a correct
> build, 

again - don't know what the problem is - so don't understand this workarround.


> unfortunately, seems like parmetis is somehow not registered
> with petsc:
> 
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Unknown partitioning type parmetis!
> 
> Would you please advise how to go on?

start with the original problem - and send logs [not logs with workarrounds]

satish


> 
> Thanks
> Dominik
>