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[Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/24/10 12:18 AM, Johan Hake wrote:
> 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.

Oh, so your religion allows you to /use/ it...

Harish :)

>> 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