[petsc-users] Installation problems on IBM machine

[Barry Smith]

  In the development version we have the default now be very simple code that uses gnumake (much simpler than the cmake stuff). We’ve found most machines have gnumake installed and if not, gnumake is very portable and ./configure has —download-gnumake so the user doesn’t even need to deal with installing it. 

   In our next release we will support legacy, cmake, gnumake for compiling. After that if all goes well with gnumake we may remove the legacy and cmake stuff.

   Barry

On May 24, 2014, at 11:12 AM, Sanjay Govindjee <s_g at berkeley.edu> wrote:

>> fortunately we are abandoning cmake for the future.
> 
> Barry,
>  Are you going to go back to standard make?
> or have you selected a new make system?
> -sanjay
> 
> On 5/24/14 6:22 AM, Barry Smith wrote:
>> 
>>   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>
>