[petsc-users] petsc externalpackage directory

[Xiangdong]

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Feb 2016, Xiangdong wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 2 Feb 2016, Barry Smith wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > > On Feb 2, 2016, at 9:21 AM, Xiangdong <epscodes at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > the package is untar and compiled in $PETSC_ARCH/externalpackages,
> but
> > > the original tarball .tar file is deleted. Is it correct?
> > > >
> > > >    Yes
> > > >
> > > >   When you ran the successful configure it printed to the screen
> where
> > > the tar file came from. You should use curl or wget to get the tarball
> and
> > > then copy it over to the machine you want it on.
> > >
> > >
> > > Or you can copy the whole '$PETSC_ARCH/externalpackages' dir over to
> > > this other machine [and place in the same location - for any
> > > PETSC_ARCH you plan to use..]
> > >
> >
> > If I have 15 packages to install, this method would be easy. Once I
> copied
> > this folder to the new machine, do I use
> > --with-pastix-dir=$PETSC_ARCH/externalpackages/pastix_5.2  or
> > --download-pastix=$PETSC_ARCH/externalpackages/pastix_5.2? The first may
> > fail due to the different libraries installed on that machine. For the
> > second one, can --download-pastix take the directory path instead of the
> > tarball file?
>
> If you already have $PETSC_ARCH/externalpackages/pastix_5.2 - then you
> would use:
>
> --download-pastix=1
>
> configure first checks if the package is already downloaded or not:
> - if found [in $PETSC_ARCH/externalpackages/] - it goes ahead and uses it.
> - if not found - it attempts to downlaod and extract in
> $PETSC_ARCH/externalpackages/
>
>
Yes, it works for my case! I did not realized that this question has
generated a long discussion on firewall.......

Thanks.

Xiangdong



> Satish
>
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