[petsc-users] Config option --download-suitesparse fails

[Satish Balay]

The tarball is now at our ftp server - so configure should work now.

Satish

On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, Satish Balay wrote:

> I pushed a change to suitesparse.py to have a backup url at our ftp server.
> 
> Shri - if you have a acopy of the suitesparse tarball - I can place it
> at our ftp site
> 
> Satish
> 
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, Vijay S. Mahadevan wrote:
> 
> > I think someone at UFL messed up the webspace that hosts Suitesparse.
> > The locations are not recognized by the server. I can't even find a
> > manual download link at their site. Google redirects me to the same
> > 403 error page too.
> > 
> > For the time being, is it possibly mirrored at one of the ANL systems
> > for download ?
> > 
> > 
> > Relevant error message with:
> > 
> > ./configure PETSC_ARCH=standalone_packages --with-debugging=1
> > --with-pic=1 --with-mpi-dir=/usr/software/mpich-3.0.4
> > --with-blas-lapack-dir=/usr --download-hypre=yes
> > --with-shared-libraries=1 --with-clanguage=C++
> > --download-suitesparse=yes
> > ....
> > ===============================================================================
> > 
> > 
> > Trying to download
> > http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/SuiteSparse/SuiteSparse-4.2.1.tar.gz
> > for SUITESPARSE
> > 
> > ===============================================================================
> > *******************************************************************************
> >          UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS    (see configure.log
> > for details):
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > file could not be opened successfully
> > Downloaded package SuiteSparse from:
> > http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/SuiteSparse/SuiteSparse-4.2.1.tar.gz
> > is not a tarball.
> > [or installed python cannot process compressed files]
> > * 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/SuiteSparse-4.2.1.tar.gz
> >   and use the configure option:
> >   --download-suitesparse=/yourselectedlocation/SuiteSparse-4.2.1.tar.gz
> > *******************************************************************************
> > 
> > Vijay
> > 
> 
>