[petsc-users] Broken link for FFC

[Jed Brown]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Ajay Rawat <ajay.rawat83 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Dev
>
> While configuring the PETSc with --download-ffc options it throws an error
>
> Downloaded package FFC from:
> http://www.fenics.org/pub/software/ffc/v0.3/ffc-0.3.3.tar.gz is not a
> tarball.
> [or installed python cannot process compressed files]
>

This server has not existed for a while (a troll threatened legal action
over the name, IIRC). Matt will have to check whether new versions of FFC
work with his code. It's not used by "mainstream" PETSc.


> * If you are behind a firewall - please fix your proxy and rerun
> ./configure
>   For example at LANL you may need to set the environmental variable
> http_proxy (or HTTP_PROXY?) to  http://proxyout.lanl.gov
> * Alternatively, you can download the above URL manually, to
> /yourselectedlocation/ffc-0.3.3.tar.gz
>   and use the configure option:
>   --download-ffc=/yourselectedlocation/ffc-0.3.3.tar.gz
>
> I guess the link is not correct.
>
> I have one more doubt regarding ffc. I see no examples regarding how to
> use ffc inside PETSc, or it is used inside fenics.
>
> With regards,
>
> Ajay Rawat
> Kalpakkam, IGCAR
>
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