[petsc-users] Building Linux 32-bit PETSc lib

[Satish Balay]

On Fri, 10 Jan 2014, Qin Lu wrote:

> Hello,
>  
> Since my Linux workstation does not have internet access, I downloaded hypre-2.9.1a.tar.gz and used --download-hypre=/d/dev01/qlu/Lib/hypre-2.9.1a.tar.gz instead. The configure gave the following error:
>  
> *******************************************************************************
>          UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS    (see configure.log for details):
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Error running make on HYPRE: Could not execute "cd /d/dev01/qlu/Lib/petsc-3.4.2-32bit/externalpackages/hypre-2.9.1a/src && make install":
> Runaway process exceeded time limit of 2500s
> *******************************************************************************
> 
> I confirmed that I can cd to /d/dev01/qlu/Lib/petsc-3.4.2-32bit/externalpackages/hypre-2.9.1a/src. The error message mentioned the time limit of 2500s, my workstation is very slow for some reason and it may take several hours to configure/build PETSc/Hypre, I am not sure this can be the problem.
>  
> Please see the attached PETSc and Hypre configure log files for details.


Hm - you can try using --useThreads=0 - and see if the timeout gets disabled.

Alternative is to increase the timeouts for all comands by doing something like the following:

Satish

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diff --git a/config/BuildSystem/script.py b/config/BuildSystem/script.py
index 4208522..a2f65bb 100644
--- a/config/BuildSystem/script.py
+++ b/config/BuildSystem/script.py
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ class Script(logger.Logger):
             (self.output, self.error, self.status) = Script.runShellCommand(command, log, cwd)
         thread = InShell()
         thread.start()
-        thread.join(timeout)
+        thread.join(timeout*3)
         if thread.isAlive():
           error = 'Runaway process exceeded time limit of '+str(timeout)+'s\n'
           log.write(error)
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