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

[Stefano Zampini]

If conda is providing the external dependencies, why do you want
download-f2cblaslapack and not use a conda provided one? Mkl or openblas
for example

Stefano

On Sat, Jun 7, 2025, 02:20 Blondel, Sophie via petsc-users <
petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov> 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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