[petsc-users] Broken link for FFC

[Andy Ray Terrel]

Just change www.fenics.org to www.fenicsproject.org, but 0.3.3 is terribly
old.

-- Andy

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Save Himalayas....
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
> experiments lead.
> -- Norbert Wiener
>
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