[petsc-users] Broken link for FFC

[Matthew Knepley]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> 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.
>

Yes, I will have to update this link. The reason this package exists is
that I was using it to generate CUDA
code in a restricted case. We now have a more general routine however, so
it is not being used.

   Matt


>
>
>> * 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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>>
>
>


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