[petsc-users] Error installing PETSc with --download-f2cblaslapack

[Barry Smith]

you forgot configure.log



> On Jun 6, 2025, at 7:19 PM, Blondel, Sophie <sblondel at utk.edu> wrote:
> 
> Correct, I tried a few different python versions and mpi versions, conda is providing the external dependencies. Maybe it wrongly points to some base builds instead of the specific environment I set up.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Sophie
> 
> On Jun 6, 2025 7:12 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at petsc.dev> wrote:
> 
>   Send configure.log
> 
>   I assume you tried rerunning a few times? It seems like possibly a flaky filesystem problem.
> 
>   Barry
> 
> 
>> On Jun 6, 2025, at 6:56 PM, Blondel, Sophie via petsc-users <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi, 
>> 
>> I am getting an error when trying to install PETSc with --download-f2cblaslapack on Linux:
>> =============================================================================================
>>                    Installing F2CBLASLAPACK; this may take several minutes
>> =============================================================================================
>> 
>> *********************************************************************************************
>>            UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS (see configure.log for details):
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>   Error moving
>>   /home/sophie/Workspace/xolotl-stable-source/external/petsc/arch-linux-c-opt/externalpackages/f2cblaslapack-3.8.0.q2
>>   libraries
>> 
>> With the error in configure.log (which is accurate, the file is not present in the folder):
>> =============================================================================================
>>                    Installing F2CBLASLAPACK; this may take several minutes
>> =============================================================================================
>> Executing: ['mkdir', '-p', '/home/sophie/Workspace/xolotl-stable-build/external/petsc_install/lib']
>> Executing: ['cp', '-f', 'libf2clapack.a', 'libf2cblas.a', '/home/sophie/Workspace/xolotl-stable-build/external/petsc_install/lib']
>> stdout: cp: cannot stat 'libf2clapack.a': No such file or directory
>>                     Error moving /home/sophie/Workspace/xolotl-stable-source/external/petsc/arch-linux-c-opt/externalpackages/f2cblaslapack-3.8.0.q2 libraries: Could not execute "[['mkdir', '-p', '/home/sophie/Workspace/xolotl-stable-build/external/petsc_install/lib'], ['cp', '-f', 'libf2clapack.a', 'libf2cblas.a', '/home/sophie/Workspace/xolotl-stable-build/external/petsc_install/lib']]":
>> cp: cannot stat 'libf2clapack.a': No such file or directory
>> 
>> The configure command is: 
>> ./configure --prefix=/home/sophie/Workspace/xolotl-stable-build/external/petsc_install --with-fc=0 --with-cuda=0 --with-mpi --with-openmp=0 --with-debugging=0 --with-shared-libraries --with-64-bit-indices --download-kokkos --download-kokkos-kernels --download-hdf5 --download-hdf5-configure-arguments=--enable-parallel --download-boost --download-f2cblaslapack --COPTFLAGS=-O3 --CXXOPTFLAGS=-O3
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> The version of PETSc you are using is out-of-date, we recommend updating to the new release
>>  Available Version: 3.23.3   Installed Version: 3.22.2
>> 
>> Let me know what additional information I can provide to help identify the issue.
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Sophie
> 

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