[petsc-users] configure: Include urlopen exception string in download failure message

[Matthew Knepley]

I have it now in

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  Thanks,

     Matt

On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 11:10 AM Aagaard, Brad T via petsc-users <
petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> I am using Python 3.12. The exception (SSL certificate issue) error string
> is not showing up in stdout (below) or the configure.log (attached).
> Relying on the error string to just show up seems fragile.
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> =============================================================================================
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>   Trying to download
>
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> https://web.cels.anl.gov/projects/petsc/download/externalpackages/f2cblaslapack-3.8.0.q2.tar.gz
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>   for F2CBLASLAPACK
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> =============================================================================================
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> *********************************************************************************************
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>            UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS (see configure.log for
> details):
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>   Error during download/extract/detection of F2CBLASLAPACK:
>
>   Unable to download package F2CBLASLAPACK from:
>
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> https://web.cels.anl.gov/projects/petsc/download/externalpackages/f2cblaslapack-3.8.0.q2.tar.gz
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>   * If URL specified manually - perhaps there is a typo?
>
>   * If your network is disconnected - please reconnect and rerun
> ./configure
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>   * Or perhaps you have a firewall blocking the download
>
>   * You can run with --with-packages-download-dir=/adirectory and
> ./configure will instruct
>
>   you what packages to download manually
>
>   * or you can download the above URL manually, to
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>   /yourselectedlocation/f2cblaslapack-3.8.0.q2.tar.gz
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>   and use the configure option:
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> --download-f2cblaslapack=/yourselectedlocation/f2cblaslapack-3.8.0.q2.tar.gz
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> *********************************************************************************************
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> *From: *Satish Balay <balay.anl at fastmail.org>
> *Date: *Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 8:51 AM
> *To: *Aagaard, Brad T <baagaard at usgs.gov>
> *Cc: *petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov>
> *Subject: *[EXTERNAL] Re: [petsc-users] configure: Include urlopen
> exception string in download failure message
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> Last I visited this issue - its a python version issue. i.e newer versions
> [3.8+? 3.10+?] don't suppress this message - so it comes up in configure
> printed message.
>
> Perhaps you can verify if this true for the issue you are seeing.
>
> Satish
>
> On Tue, 14 Jan 2025, Aagaard, Brad T via petsc-users wrote:
>
> > The current implementation of Retrival.tarballRetrieve() does not
> capture the error string from an exception raised in a call to urlopen().
> This makes it difficult to diagnose download failures. Can you add the
> error string from the exception to the download failure message (maybe as
> an optional argument to getDownloadFailureMessage())? This is at lines
> 205-208 of config/BuildSystem/retrieval.py.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brad
> >
> >
>


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