[petsc-users] Installation problems on IBM machine

[Barry Smith]

  Try using make all-legacy

   Barry

That is some cmake problem; fortunately we are abandoning cmake for the future. The reason the problem persists is likely because cmake has cached something somewhere that doesn’t get rebuilt.


On May 24, 2014, at 7:04 AM, Samar Khatiwala <spk at ldeo.columbia.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm having trouble installing PETSc on an IBM machine (power6). After some trial and error I managed to configure but the 'make all' step fails with: 
> 
> ==========================================
> Building PETSc using CMake with 21 build threads
> ==========================================
> make: 1254-002 Cannot find a rule to create target 21 from dependencies.
> Stop.
> make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 2.
> …
> 
> Please see attached logs. I configured with:
> 
> config/configure.py --with-cc=mpcc --with-cxx=mpCC --with-clanguage=c --with-fc=mpxlf90 --with-debugging=0 FFLAGS="-qextname" --with-batch=1 --known-mpi-shared-libraries=0 --with-blas-lapack-lib="[libessl.a]"
> 
> What is odd is that this worked once but 'make test' failed because of a missing LAPACK routine in ESSL. I reconfigured with 
> --with-blas-lib=libessl.a --with-lapack-lib=/sw/aix53/lapack-3.2.0/lib/liblapack.a but then 'make all' failed with the same error as I now 
> get *even after* reverting to the original (above) configure options. I've now tried this several times with a fresh copy of PETSc to no 
> avail.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks very much!
> 
> Samar
> 
> 
> 
> <make.log.gz><configure.log.gz>