[petsc-users] With-batch (new) flags

[Balay, Satish]

I'm not yet sure what the correct fix is - but the following change should get this going..

diff --git a/config/BuildSystem/config/packages/BlasLapack.py b/config/BuildSystem/config/packages/BlasLapack.py
index e0310da4b0..7355f1a369 100644
--- a/config/BuildSystem/config/packages/BlasLapack.py
+++ b/config/BuildSystem/config/packages/BlasLapack.py
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ class Configure(config.package.Package):
     help.addArgument('BLAS/LAPACK', '-with-lapack-lib=<libraries: e.g. [/Users/..../liblapack.a,...]>',nargs.ArgLibrary(None, None, 'Indicate the library(s) containing LAPACK'))
     help.addArgument('BLAS/LAPACK', '-with-blaslapack-suffix=<string>',nargs.ArgLibrary(None, None, 'Indicate a suffix for BLAS/LAPACK subroutine names.'))
     help.addArgument('BLAS/LAPACK', '-with-64-bit-blas-indices', nargs.ArgBool(None, 0, 'Try to use 64 bit integers for BLAS/LAPACK; will error if not available'))
-#    help.addArgument('BLAS/LAPACK', '-known-64-bit-blas-indices=<bool>', nargs.ArgBool(None, 0, 'Indicate if using 64 bit integer BLAS'))
+    help.addArgument('BLAS/LAPACK', '-known-64-bit-blas-indices=<bool>', nargs.ArgBool(None, 0, 'Indicate if using 64 bit integer BLAS'))
     return
 
   def getPrefix(self):

Satish

On Mon, 20 May 2019, Mark Adams via petsc-users wrote:

> On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 3:55 PM Balay, Satish <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> > for ex:  ilp version of mkl is --known-64-bit-blas-indices=1 while lp mkl
> > is --known-64-bit-blas-indices=0
> >
> > Default blas we normally use is --known-64-bit-blas-indices=0 [they don't
> > use 64bit indices]
> >
> 
> Humm, that is what Dylan (in the log that I sent). He is downloading blas
> and has --known-64-bit-blas-indices=0. Should this be correct?
> 
> 
> >
> > Satish
> >
> > On Mon, 20 May 2019, Mark Adams via petsc-users wrote:
> >
> > > We are getting this failure. This a bit frustrating in that the first
> > error
> > > message "Must give a default value for known-mpi-shared-libraries.." OK,
> > I
> > > google it and find that =0 is suggested. That seemed to work. Then we
> > got a
> > > similar error about -known-64-bit-blas-indices. It was clear from the
> > > documentation what to use so we tried =0 and that failed (attached). This
> > > is little frustrating having to use try and error for each of these
> > 'known"
> > > things.
> > >
> > > Dylan is trying  --known-64-bit-blas-indices=1 now. I trust that will
> > work,
> > > but I think the error are not very informative. All this known stuff is
> > new
> > > to me. Perhaps put an FAQ for this and list all of the "known"s that we
> > > need to add in batch.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mark
> > >
> >
> >
>