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[Johan Hake <johan.hake@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday August 23 2010 11:40:52 Harish Narayanan wrote:
> On 8/23/10 11:38 PM, Anders Logg wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:04:00AM -0700, Johan Hake wrote:
> >> On Monday August 23 2010 10:52:12 Anders Logg wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:33:56AM -0700, Johan Hake wrote:
> >>>> On Monday August 23 2010 10:15:32 Anders Logg wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:00:48AM -0700, Johan Hake wrote:
> >>>>>> On Monday August 23 2010 09:50:12 Anders Logg wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 09:48:02AM -0700, Johan Hake wrote:
> >>>>>>>> On Monday August 23 2010 09:32:40 Anders Logg wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 09:25:29AM -0700, Johan Hake wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>> Hello!
> >>>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>>> CMake works smooth here. Much nicer config messages too. You
> >>>>>>>>>> are doing a great job getting this up and running!
> >>>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>>> The only test that wont pass for me now is SLEPc. It
> >>>>>>>>>> complains about PETSC_ARCH not beeing set or set to empty.
> >>>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>>> I have installed PETSc and SLEPc using dorsal.
> >>>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>>> Johan
> >>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>> Which platform are you running?
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> Lucid
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>> Is PETSC_ARCH set?
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> Nope.
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>> It's very easy to debug. Just add stuff like
> >>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>>   message("PETSC_ARCH = ${PETSC_ARCH}")
> >>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>> in the file cmake/FindSLEPc.cmake.
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> I see that the FindPETSc.cmake includes some logic for when
> >>>>>>>> PETSC_ARCH is not set. This is lacking in FindSLEPc.cmake, which
> >>>>>>>> requires PETSC_ARCH to be set.
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> ok, now I see what the problem is. I'll see if I can fix it.
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> The way Dorsal installs PETSc has changed. It now does the
> >>>>>>> PETSc-style installation = no installation which required
> >>>>>>> PETSC_DIR and PETSC_ARCH to be set.
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> Ok, still on old dorsal. I liked that everything is installed in one
> >>>>>> place skipping the need to PETSC_ARCH.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Yes, but it turns out that didn't work very well with SLEPc 3.1 so we
> >>>>> had to change.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Ok?
> >>>> 
> >>>> I am on SLEPc 3.1 but I had to switch to manual install. All tests
> >>>> compiles
> >>>> 
> >>>> and runs for SLEPc using:
> >>>>   make examples
> >>> 
> >>> What do you mean by manual install?
> >> 
> >> I go to the src directory of SLEPc and configure and make it myself.
> >> SLEPC_DIR is set to prefix, but I temporarily set it to PWD when
> >> compiling. If I have a slepc installation in prefix I need to remove
> >> that first...
> >> 
> >>   SLEPC_DIR=$(pwd) ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local
> >>   make install
> > 
> > ok. You should be able to use Dorsal for this now.
> > 
> > It would be good if as many as possible (even us developers) used
> > Dorsal so that it gets enough testing.

I am using it for most part. Trilinos and SLEPc beeing the exceptions.

> I agree. And send patches!

Well... Isn't Dorsal written in bash? My religion prohibits me to hack that. 
;)

Anyhow, I am not sure if this is SLEPc-version dependent?

Johan