[petsc-users] Cmake problem on an old cluster

[Satish Balay]

> /home/danyangs/soft/petsc/petsc-3.13.6/src/sys/makefile contains a directory not on the filesystem: ['\\']


Its strange that its complaining about petsc-3.13.6. Do you have this location set in your .bashrc or similar file - that's getting sourced during the build?

Perhaps you could start with a fresh copy of petsc and retry?

Also suggest using 'arch-' prefix for PETSC_ARCH i.e 'arch-intel-14.0.2-openmpi-1.6.5' - just in case there are some bugs lurking with skipping build files in this location

Satish


On Thu, 19 Jan 2023, Danyang Su wrote:

> Hi Barry and Satish,
> 
> I guess there is compatibility problem with some external package. The latest
> CMake complains about the compiler, so I remove superlu_dist option since I
> rarely use it. Then the HYPRE package shows "Error: Hypre requires C++
> compiler. None specified", which is a bit tricky since c++ compiler is
> specified in the configuration so I comment the related error code in hypre.py
> during configuration. After doing this, there is no error during PETSc
> configuration but new error occurs during make process.
> 
> **************************ERROR*************************************
>   Error during compile, check
> intel-14.0.2-openmpi-1.6.5/lib/petsc/conf/make.log
>   Send it and intel-14.0.2-openmpi-1.6.5/lib/petsc/conf/configure.log to
> petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov
> ********************************************************************
> 
> It might be not worth checking this problem since most of the users do not
> work on such old cluster. Both log files are attached in case any developer
> wants to check. Please let me know if there is any suggestions and I am
> willing to make a test.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Danyang
> 
> On 2023-01-19 11:18 a.m., Satish Balay wrote:
> > BTW: cmake is required by superlu-dist not petsc.
> >
> > And its possible that petsc might not build with this old version of openmpi
> > - [and/or the externalpackages that you are installing - might not build
> > with this old version of intel compilers].
> >
> > Satish
> >
> > On Thu, 19 Jan 2023, Barry Smith wrote:
> >
> >>    Remove
> >>    --download-cmake=/home/danyangs/soft/petsc/petsc-3.18.3/packages/cmake-3.25.1.tar.gz
> >>    and install CMake yourself. Then configure PETSc with
> >>    --with-cmake=directory you installed it in.
> >>
> >>    Barry
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Jan 19, 2023, at 1:46 PM, Danyang Su <danyang.su at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi All,
> >>>
> >>> I am trying to install the latest PETSc on an old cluster but always get
> >>> some error information at the step of cmake. The system installed cmake is
> >>> V3.2.3, which is out-of-date for PETSc. I tried to use --download-cmake
> >>> first, it does not work. Then I tried to clean everything (delete the
> >>> petsc_arch folder), download the latest cmake myself and pass the path to
> >>> the configuration, the error is still there.
> >>>
> >>> The compiler there is a bit old, intel-14.0.2 and openmpi-1.6.5. I have no
> >>> problem to install PETSc-3.13.6 there. The latest version cannot pass
> >>> configuration, unfortunately. Attached is the last configuration I have
> >>> tried.
> >>>
> >>> --with-cc=mpicc --with-cxx=mpicxx --with-fc=mpif90
> >>> --download-cmake=/home/danyangs/soft/petsc/petsc-3.18.3/packages/cmake-3.25.1.tar.gz
> >>> --download-mumps --download-scalapack --download-parmetis --download-metis
> >>> --download-ptscotch --download-fblaslapack --download-hypre
> >>> --download-superlu_dist --download-hdf5=yes --with-hdf5-fortran-bindings
> >>> --with-debugging=0 COPTFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mtune=native"
> >>> CXXOPTFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mtune=native" FOPTFLAGS="-O2 -march=native
> >>> -mtune=native"
> >>>
> >>> Is there any solution for this.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> Danyang
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> <configure.log>
>