[petsc-users] "Could not find a suitable archiver. Use --with-arto specify an archiver"

[Smith, Barry F.]

> On Oct 27, 2018, at 9:45 AM, Balay, Satish <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2018, avatar wrote:
> 
>> Thank Satish. I would like to call Matlab function in Pestc. For example, calculating the condition number of a petsc matrix.
> 
> Hm  - sounds like you need --with-matlab-engine. I'm not sure if we are still supporting this code.

  Yes you need --with-matlab-engine also. 
> 
> 
>> When I comment out the test from configuration script, I got the following problem. And the attached is the LOG file.
>> ===============================================================================
>>             Configuring PETSc to compile on your system
>> ===============================================================================
>> TESTING: configureLibrary from config.packages.Matlab(config/BuildSystem/config/packages/Matlab.py:35)          *******************************************************************************
>>        CONFIGURATION CRASH  (Please send configure.log to petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov)
>> *******************************************************************************
> 
> What likes did you comment? Here is what you could do..
> 
> Satish
> 
> -------
> diff --git a/config/BuildSystem/config/packages/Matlab.py b/config/BuildSystem/config/packages/Matlab.py
> index 351c7d2..66f4b72 100644
> --- a/config/BuildSystem/config/packages/Matlab.py
> +++ b/config/BuildSystem/config/packages/Matlab.py
> @@ -44,17 +44,6 @@ class Configure(config.package.Package):
>         interpreter = interpreter+' -'+self.argDB['with-matlab-arch']
> 
>       output      = ''
> -      try:
> -        output,err,ret = config.package.Package.executeShellCommand(interpreter+' -nojvm -nodisplay -r "display([\'Version \' version]); exit"', log = self.log)
> -      except:
> -        self.log.write('WARNING: Found Matlab at '+matlab+' but unable to run\n')
> -        continue
> -
> -      match  = versionPattern.search(output)
> -      r = float(match.group(1))
> -      if r < 6.0:
> -        self.log.write('WARNING: Matlab version must be at least 6; yours is '+str(r))
> -        continue
>       # make sure this is true root of Matlab
>       if not os.path.isdir(os.path.join(matlab,'extern','lib')):
>         self.log.write('WARNING:'+matlab+' is not the root directory for Matlab\n')