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[Jed Brown <fenics@xxxxxxxx>]

On 16 Mar 2008, aasmund@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 4:18 PM, osman <osman@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  I am trying to build dolfin from mercurial repositories. Just copied it
> >  today.
> >  I just re-built  boost 1.34.1  locally. installed it
> >  in /home/osman/local
> >
> [snip]
> >   Trying to generate pkg-config file for petsc... Can not find alternate
> >  for mpicc
> >  Can not find alternate for mpicc
> >  Can not find alternate for mpicc
> [snip]
> 
> This is a bit strange. Could you check what the PCC setting in PETSc
> is, it's probably located in
> 
> $PETSC_DIR/bmake/common/variables
> 
> [Johannes, we should add this to the log....]
> 
> Somehow, Petsc is reporting a C compiler (mpicc) that we are not able
> to find a c++ version of. Now, this should really be taken care of
> more gracefully, by just skipping Petsc as a dependency (and an error
> message)

When you have PETSc download mpich2, my recollection is that it only has
the binary mpicc, even if it is really a C++ compiler.  This has caused
some confusion for another project I'm involved in.

Jed

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