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[Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/18/10 6:16 PM, Anders Logg wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 01:44:26PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 14:42 +0200, Anders Logg wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 01:46:18PM +0200, Anders Logg wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:43:23PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 13:38 +0200, Anders Logg wrote:
>>>>>> I'm getting the following error message when installing with Dorsal on
>>>>>> my Snow Leopard MacBook:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Unpacking slepc-3.1-p1
>>>>>> Building slepc-3.1-p1
>>>>>> Checking environment...
>>>>>> Checking PETSc installation...
>>>>>> Checking LAPACK library...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ================================================================================
>>>>>> SLEPc Configuration
>>>>>> ================================================================================
>>>>>>
>>>>>> SLEPc source directory:
>>>>>>  /Users/logg/Work/FEniCS/src/slepc-3.1-p1
>>>>>> SLEPc install directory:
>>>>>>  /Users/logg/Work/FEniCS
>>>>>> PETSc directory:
>>>>>>  /Users/logg/Work/FEniCS
>>>>>> Architecture "unknown" with double precision real numbers
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   **
>>>>>>   ** Before running "make" your PETSC_ARCH must be specified with:
>>>>>>   **  ** setenv PETSC_ARCH unknown (csh/tcsh)
>>>>>>   **  ** PETSC_ARCH=unknown ; export PETSC_ARCH (sh/bash)
>>>>>>   **
>>>>>>
>>>>>> makefile:30: darwin10.0.0-cxx-opt/conf/slepcvariables: No such file or
>>>>>> directory
>>>>>> /Users/logg/Work/FEniCS/src/slepc-3.1-p1/conf/slepc_common_variables:2:
>>>>>> /Users/logg/Work/FEniCS/src/slepc-3.1-p1/darwin10.0.0-cxx-opt/conf/slepcvariables:
>>>>>> No such file or directory
>>>>>> /Users/logg/Work/FEniCS/src/slepc-3.1-p1/conf/slepc_common_rules:78:
>>>>>> /Users/logg/Work/FEniCS/src/slepc-3.1-p1/darwin10.0.0-cxx-opt/conf/slepcrules:
>>>>>> No such file or directory
>>>>>> make: *** No rule to make target
>>>>>> `/Users/logg/Work/FEniCS/src/slepc-3.1-p1/darwin10.0.0-cxx-opt/conf/slepcrules'.
>>>>>> Stop.
>>>>>> Failure with exit status: 2
>>>>>> Exit message: There was a problem building slepc-3.1-p1.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any ideas what goes wrong?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I thought that I fixed this yesterday. See if you can figure out what's
>>>>> going on in
>>>>>
>>>>>     FEniCS/packages/slepc.package
>>>>>
>>>>> Garth
>>>>
>>>> ok.
>>>
>>> The problem seems to be PETSC_ARCH_TEMP. The way I understand this is
>>> that this should be set in package_specific_register as part of
>>> petsc.package and then propagated to slepc.package, but that variable
>>> seems to be empty (in both petsc.package and slepc.package).
>>>
>>> Where is PETSC_ARCH set?
>>>
>>
>> In the foo.platform file.
>>
>> It should really set wherever the decision on the PETSc build options is
>> made.
> 
> Aha. Then your fix yesterday seems to be the problem. It overwrites
> PETSC_ARCH with PETSC_TEMP which is empty. It should check if
> PETSC_TEMP is non-empty an only then overwrite PETSC_ARCH. I'll see if
> I can fix it.

:_(

Harish