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[Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/29/11 11:03 AM, Andre Massing wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I just wanted to install a fresh FEniCS unstable version on my
> snowleopard (no mpi tricks this time :) but I ran into a couple of
> problems. This is the first one:
> Despite the fact that petsccore is used in the snowleopard.platform
> petsc does the FortranMPICheck and aborting because of the missing
> mipf90 compiler.
> I could remedy this by adding --with-fc=0  to the package file but was
> wondering if somebody else has run into the problem. If so, I would
> suggest to add the above mentioned flag to the package file.
> Here is my error message:
> 
> 
> Unpacking petsc-3.1-p7
> Building petsc-3.1-p7
> ===============================================================================
> 
>              Configuring PETSc to compile on your system
> ===============================================================================
> 
> ===============================================================================
> 
>                 WARNING! Compiling PETSc with no debugging, this should
>                               only be done for timing and production
> runs. All development should                                         be
> done when configured using --with-debugging=1
> ===============================================================================
> 
> TESTING: FortranMPICheck from
> config.packages.MPI(config/BuildSystem/config/packages/MPI.py:636)
> *******************************************************************************
> 
>          UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS    (see configure.log
> for details):
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Fortran error! mpi_init() could not be located!
> *******************************************************************************
> 
> 
> Failure with exit status: 1
> 
> Exit message: There was a problem configuring petsc-3.1-p7.

I did not see this and I installed everything from scratch recently. I
think I will add the flag anyway!

Harish