[petsc-users] configuring on OSX

[Jed Brown]

We always need configure.log, please.

You shouldn't have to set CPP; it's usually preferable to use $(CC) -E anyway.

Brian Van Straalen via petsc-users <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov> writes:

> pulling from git PETSC and on master branch.
>
> ./configure CPP=/usr/bin/cpp
> ===============================================================================
>              Configuring PETSc to compile on your system
>
> ===============================================================================
> TESTING: checkCPreprocessor from
> config.setCompilers(config/BuildSystem/config/setCompilers.py:592)
>
> *******************************************************************************
>          UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS    (see configure.log for
> details):
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Cannot find a C preprocessor
> *******************************************************************************
>
>
>
> Brian
>
> my configure script
>
> configure_options = [
> #   '--with-mpi-dir=/usr/local/opt/open-mpi',
>    '--with-cc=/usr/bin/clang',
>    '--with-cpp=/usr/bin/cpp',
>    '--with-cxx=/usr/bin/clang++',
>    '--with-fc=0',
>     'COPTFLAGS=-g -framework Accelerate',
>     'CXXOPTFLAGS=-g -framework Accelerate',
>     'FOPTFLAGS=-g',
> #  '--with-memalign=64',
>   '--download-hypre=1',
>   '--download-metis=1',
>   '--download-parmetis=1',
>   '--download-c2html=1',
>   '--download-ctetgen',
> #  '--download-viennacl',
> #  '--download-ml=1',
>   '--download-p4est=1',
>   '--download-superlu_dist',
>   '--download-superlu',
>   '--with-cxx-dialect=C++11',
>   '--download-mumps=1',
>   '--download-scalapack=1',
> #  '--download-exodus=1',
> #  '--download-ctetgen=1',
>   '--download-triangle=1',
> #  '--download-pragmatic=1',
> #  '--download-eigen=1',
>   '--download-zlib',
>   '--with-x=1',
>   '--with-sowing=0',
>   '--with-debugging=1',
>   '--with-precision=double',
>   'PETSC_ARCH=arch-macosx-gnu-g',
>   '--download-chaco'
>   ]
>
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>   import sys,os
>   sys.path.insert(0,os.path.abspath('config'))
>   import configure
>   configure.petsc_configure(configure_options)
>
>
> -- 
> Brian Van Straalen         Lawrence Berkeley Lab
> BVStraalen at lbl.gov        Computational Research
> (510) 486-4976            Division (crd.lbl.gov)