[petsc-users] Elemental support is outdated?

[Karl Rupp]

Hi Denis,

> I just tried compiling PETSc with Elemental 0.87.7 and got compiler 
> errors (see below) which suggests that the interface in PETSc is outdated.
> Looking at the “elemental.py” 
> https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/src/90564b43f6b05485163c147b464b5d6d28cde3ef/config/BuildSystem/config/packages/elemental.py?at=hongzh%2Fswe&fileviewer=file-view-default 
> <https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/src/90564b43f6b05485163c147b464b5d6d28cde3ef/config/BuildSystem/config/packages/elemental.py?at=hongzh/swe&fileviewer=file-view-default> 
> 
> I see that the suggested Elemental's commit is from Nov 2015 
> https://github.com/elemental/Elemental/commit/e81005dc3af9b331d43e16e4d221e889378e2c49 
> 
> whereas 0.87.7 is from Feb. 2017; There are 8 releases in between.

the master branch of PETSc uses version 0.87.4 from November 2016:
https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/src/743f4829774bac6ed514af01aa0f24f18a42afc0/config/BuildSystem/config/packages/elemental.py?at=master&fileviewer=file-view-default

Best regards,
Karli