[petsc-users] PETSc with Julia Binary Builder

[Matthew Knepley]

On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 2:05 AM Patrick Sanan <patrick.sanan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> As you mention in [4], the proximate cause of the configure failure is
> this link error [8]:
>

That missing function was introduced in  GCC 7.0, and is there only for
i686, not x86_64. This looks like a bad GCC install to me.

   Matt


> Naively, that looks like a problem to be resolved at the level of the C++
> compiler and MPI.
>
> Unless there are wrinkles of this build process that I don't understand
> (likely), this [6] looks non-standard to me:
>
>         includedir="${prefix}/include"
>         ...
>         ./configure --prefix=${prefix} \
>                 ...
>                 -with-mpi-include="${includedir}" \
>                 ...
>
>
> Is it possible to configure using  --with-mpi-dir, instead of the separate
> --with-mpi-include and --with-mpi-lib commands?
>
>
> As an aside, maybe Satish can say more, but I'm not sure if it's advisable
> to override variables in the make command [7].
>
> [8]
> https://gist.github.com/jkozdon/c161fb15f2df23c3fbc0a5a095887ef8#file-configure-log-L7795
> [6]
> https://gist.github.com/jkozdon/c161fb15f2df23c3fbc0a5a095887ef8#file-build_tarballs-jl-L45
> [7]
> https://gist.github.com/jkozdon/c161fb15f2df23c3fbc0a5a095887ef8#file-build_tarballs-jl-L55
>
>
> > Am 02.07.2021 um 06:25 schrieb Kozdon, Jeremy (CIV) <jekozdon at nps.edu>:
> >
> > I have been talking with Boris Kaus and Patrick Sanan about trying to
> revive the Julia PETSc interface wrappers. One of the first things to get
> going is to use Julia's binary builder [1] to wrap more scalar, real, and
> int type builds of the PETSc library; the current distribution is just
> Real, double, Int32. I've been working on a PR for this [2] but have been
> running into some build issues on some architectures [3].
> >
> > I doubt that anyone here is an expert with Julia's binary builder
> system, but I was wondering if anyone who is better with the PETSc build
> system can see anything obvious from the configure.log [4] that might help
> me sort out what's going on.
> >
> > This exact script worked on 2020-08-20 [5] to build the libraries, se
> something has obviously changed with either the Julia build system and/or
> one (or more!) of the dependency binaries.
> >
> > For those that don't know, Julia's binary builder system essentially
> allows users to download binaries directly from the web for any system that
> the Julia Programing language distributes binaries for. So a (desktop) user
> can get MPI, PETSc, etc. without the headache of having to build anything
> from scratch; obviously on clusters you would still want to use system MPIs
> and what not.
> >
> > ----
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/JuliaPackaging/BinaryBuilder.jl
> > [2] https://github.com/JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil/pull/3249
> > [3]
> https://github.com/JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil/pull/3249#issuecomment-872698681
> > [4]
> https://gist.github.com/jkozdon/c161fb15f2df23c3fbc0a5a095887ef8#file-configure-log
> > [5]
> https://github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers/PETSc_jll.jl/releases/tag/PETSc-v3.13.4%2B0
>
>

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