[petsc-users] Elemental support is outdated?

[Karl Rupp]

Hi Denis,

> Thanks for the prompt reply,
> I did not notice that I was not looking at the master branch.
> I will try with 0.87.4...
> 
> It would still be good if PETSc supports the most recent Elemental.

you are right. I checked the latest Elemental release and the upgrade 
was without problems. It is now merged to branch next for testing:
https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/commits/ce8ca746282174cc1e4f5a02c6a306c44d99f4f9

Thanks and best regards,
Karli



> 
>> On 5 Sep 2017, at 15:10, Karl Rupp <rupp at iue.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>>
>> 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compiling PETSc with Elemental 0.87.7 and got compiler errors (see below) which suggests that the interface in PETSc is outdated.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
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