[petsc-users] compilation error of petsc-3.2-p7 with metis

[Satish Balay]

On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Kyunghoon Lee wrote:

> > you don't need --download-metis for petsc-3.2 [--download-parmetis=1
> > installs metis for you]
> >
> > [--download-metis=1 is broken in petsc-3.2. Also petsc-3.2 doesn't
> > directly use metis]
> >
> > Satish
> >
> 
> I check externalpackages of petsc-3.2-p5, which I configured only with
> parmetis:
> 
> $ ls
> MUMPS_4.10.0/      ParMetis-3.2.0-p1/ SCALAPACK-1.7/     UMFPACK-5.5.1/
> blacs-dev/         mpich2-1.4.1p1/
> 
> , which has no metis.  I guess I cannot get metis just by enabling
> --download-parmetis=1.

Parmetis includes metis sources - so once its installed with
--download-metis - you will have libmetis.a and libparmetis.a

Satish