[petsc-users] Passing configuration options for external package compilation

[Satish Balay]

On Sat, 25 Apr 2020, san.temporal at gmail.com wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> When using
> 
> $ ./configure ... --download-mumps --download-scalapack ...
> 
> is there a way to pass configuration options for the compilation of mumps,
> scalapack, etc.?

MUMPS, scalapack don't use configure as part of the build. [or if it exists - petsc does not use this interface to build these packages]. MUMPs is built via Makefile.inc interface.

Other packages do have configure - for ex: MPICH - where you can use:


  --download-mpich-configure-arguments=string
       Additional GNU autoconf configure arguments for the build of MPICH  current: 0

Satish

> 
> Otherwise, I would have to first compile those packages, and then tell
> PETSc configure where to find them.
> I am having trouble with that, as asked in
> https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-users/2020-April/040945.html
> 
> Thanks,
> Santiago
>