[petsc-users] deactivating x11 in PETSc 3.13.0 with pastix/hwloc

[Satish Balay]

you can try:

--download-pastix --download-hwloc --download-hwloc-configure-arguments=--without-x

We should fix this to automatically use --with-x=0/1

Satish

On Mon, 6 Apr 2020, Alfredo Jaramillo wrote:

> hello everyone,
> 
> I have a fresh installation of the 3.13.0 version with pastix. Like with
> previous versions, I'm using the options
> 
> --with-x11=0 --with-x=0 --with-windows-graphics=0
> 
> to disable X11
> 
> however, when compiling my program foo and doing
> 
> $ ldd foo
> 
> between the linked libraries there appear:
> libXNVCtrl.so.0 and libX11.so.6
> 
> the first one related to NVIDIA. I observed that this does not happen when
> installing PETSc without hwloc. In this new version, PETSc requires to
> install hwloc when trying to install pastix. In previous versions of PETSc
> (eg 3.11.2) that wasn't necessary.
> 
> I'm working in a cluster where I have no access to these X11-related
> libraries and that's why I need them not be linked. Is it there some way to
> disable X11 when installing hwloc? maybe enforcing some configuration
> variables when installing it through petsc or installing it independently?
> 
> thanks a lot!
> 
> Below the configuration command of the two installations I've tried with
> the 3.13.0 version.
> 
> =================== WITH PASTIX ===================
> 
> ./configure --with-make-np=20
> --with-petsc-arch=x64go-3.13-openmpi-4.0.1-pastix-64 --with-debugging=0
> --doCleanup=0 \
> --with-mpi=1 \
> --with-valgrind=1 --with-valgrind-dir=$PATH_TO_VALGRIND/valgrind-3.15.0 \
> --download-scalapack \
> --download-openblas \
> --download-mumps \
> --download-superlu_dist \
> --download-metis \
> --download-parmetis \
> --download-ptscotch \
> --download-hypre \
> 
> *--download-pastix \--download-hwloc \*
> --with-64-bit-indices=1 \
> LDFLAGS=$LDFLAGS CPPFLAGS=$CPPFLAGS \
> --with-cxx-dialect=C++11 \
> --with-x11=0 --with-x=0 --with-windows-graphics=0 \
> COPTFLAGS="-O3 -march=native -mtune=native" \
> CXXOPTFLAGS="-O3 -march=native -mtune=native" \
> FOPTFLAGS="-O3 -march=native -mtune=native"
> 
> =================== WITHOUT PASTIX ===================
> 
> the same as above but the options "--download-pastix --download-hwloc"
> 
> ======================================================
>