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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 18:23 +0200, Anders Logg wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 08:31:55PM +0530, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> > On 8/18/10 8:23 PM, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 16:16 +0200, Anders Logg wrote:
> > >> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 03:40:47PM +0200, Anders Logg wrote:
> > >>> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 06:58:24PM +0530, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> > >>>> On 8/18/10 6:32 PM, Anders Logg wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>>>
> > >>>> ================================================================================
> > >>>> SLEPc Configuration
> > >>>> ================================================================================
> > >>>>
> > >>>> SLEPc source directory:
> > >>>>  /Users/harish/Work/FEniCS/test/src/slepc-3.1-p1
> > >>>> SLEPc install directory:
> > >>>>  /Users/harish/Work/FEniCS/test
> > >>>> PETSc directory:
> > >>>>  /Users/harish/Work/FEniCS/test
> > >>>> 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/harish/Work/FEniCS/test/src/slepc-3.1-p1/conf/slepc_common_variables:2:
> > >>>> /Users/harish/Work/FEniCS/test/src/slepc-3.1-p1/darwin10.0.0-cxx-opt/conf/slepcvariables:
> > >>>> No such file or directory
> > >>>> /Users/harish/Work/FEniCS/test/src/slepc-3.1-p1/conf/slepc_common_rules:78:
> > >>>> /Users/harish/Work/FEniCS/test/src/slepc-3.1-p1/darwin10.0.0-cxx-opt/conf/slepcrules:
> > >>>> No such file or directory
> > >>>> make: *** No rule to make target
> > >>>> `/Users/harish/Work/FEniCS/test/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.
> > >>>
> > >>> I get exactly the same thing.
> > >>
> > >> I have something that appears to work now. Will push when I have
> > >> tested it.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Check that it works with petsc commented out in the .platform file (but
> > > already complied, e.g. on a previous run of dorsal).
> >
> > Dorsal is not designed to this way. You are supposed to
> >
> > skip:petsc
> >
> > (instead of commenting it out) in the packages list. Commenting out
> > means dorsal knows nothing of petsc and slepc should fail. skip:petsc
> > means dorsal knows about it but will skip compiling it. slepc will pick
> > this up, and so will DOLFIN.
> >
> > Harish
> 
> I made an attempt to fix this. Looking at petsconf.py in SLEPc, it
> seems that one should not set PETSC_ARCH when building against an
> installed version of PETSc, so I just made sure that PETSC_ARCH is
> unset when Dorsal configures and builds SLEPc and that PETSC_DIR is
> set to the installation directory.
> 

An option is if Doral using './configure --prefix=/foo/bar'. Then a
prefix is not required.

> It also seems that it doesn't really matter what we set PETSC_ARCH to
> since we just build one version of PETSc. It's just a name and
> it's not used by SLEPc.
> 

Are you using SLEPc 3.1?

Garth

> --
> Anders