[petsc-users] PetscBool in PETSc 3.1? (Ubuntu Precice)

[Barry Smith]

> On Oct 25, 2015, at 11:40 AM, Florian Lindner <mailinglists at xgm.de> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> our build system Travis uses the old Ubuntu Precice Pangolin version that comes with PETSc 3.1.
> 
> While trying to activate petsc for our CI tests, I get the message that the type PetscBool wasn't found. I downloaded http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/libpetsc3.1-dev and grepped for PetscBool, found non.
> 
> Just to make sure I didn't screw it up, is it true, that there is no PetscBool in version 3.1?

   In version 3.1 it is called PetscTruth

   PETSc version 3.1 is really, really old, we don't recommend you use it for any purpose since we don't support it.

  Barry


> 
> Is there a PPA known that provides newer PETSc versions to Precice Pangolin
> 
> Thanks,
> Florian
>