[petsc-users] Elemental support is outdated?

[Satish Balay]

You could try (with petsc master):

--download-elemental-commit=v0.87.7

Latest elemental master appears to have major changes [including C++14
reqirement] - so that might require more work..

Satish

On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, Denis Davydov wrote:

> Hi Karl,
> 
> 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.
> 
> Regards,
> Denis.
> 
> > 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compiling PETSc with Elemental 0.87.7 and got compiler errors (see below) which suggests that the interface in PETSc is outdated.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
> 
>