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

[Vijay S. Mahadevan]

Thanks Satish. Will pull and try now.

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 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
>> >
>>
>>
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