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[Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/23/10 1:49 PM, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 13:46 +0530, Harish Narayanan wrote:
>> On 8/23/10 1:06 PM, Anders Logg wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:27:37AM +0530, Harish Narayanan wrote:
>>>> There now exist four petsc packages in the dorsal repository:
>>>>
>>>> petsc
>>>> petscextra
>>>> petscminimal
>>>> petscwithoutmpi
>>>>
>>>> I would these to be streamlined into two primary ones.
>>>>
>>>> petscextra           => (new) petsc
>>>> petscminimal + petsc => (new) petsccore
>>>> petscwithoutmpi      => (remove, along with support for xp)
>>>
>>> Sounds good.
>>>
>>> The problem before was that some platforms seemed to be ok with adding
>>> UMFPACK (which is really needed or else we don't have a direct solver)
>>> while there were still some that had to do without.
>>>
>>> I assume we can have petsc on all platforms except Mac where we need
>>> petsccore since the Fortran support in OpenMPI is missing.
>>
> 
> This is a pretty serious omission in the OpenMPI package. Surely someone
> has fixed this on the MacPorts side? I see that the package has some
> variants - could it be a case of installing the gfortran package before
> installing OpenMPI?

I will not fix this. Yes, you can use OpenMPI stuff from MacPorts, but
then you are ignoring the existing buildchain on the machine almost
entirely.

Harish