No worries, Luca.

Cheers

Ted


On 30 August 2010 11:25, Luca Heltai <[email protected]> wrote:

> I realize just now that my previous email sounded a bit upset... I didn't
> mean to sound rude, I'm sorry. :)
>
> The reason why I think it's worth it, it's because compiling
> Trilinos+Petsc+Deal.II+maybeGCC is a very lengthy process. Knowing in
> advance that there might be an issue with certain options could save other
> people between one hour and several days (not everybody might be as lucky as
> you were to find what the problem was "by chance" in a few tries...)...
>
> Just to name an example, some time ago there was only one configuration
> known to function properly for Trilinos+Deal.II+Petsc under Mac OSX with
> gfortran, and it required the installation of gcc from the "HPC on Mac"
> site. Well, it turned out that there were two slightly different versions
> (4.5.x and 4.4.x) on the official site and on sourceforge and only one of
> the two was working. This is a minor detail. But it wasted 2 days of a good
> friend's time.
>
> If this can be avoided, then I think it is worth it, and it is one of the
> main reasons to have a wiki.
>
> I reread my previous email. It didn't sound rude. It WAS rude. I'm sorry.
> :S
>
> L.
>
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>
> On 30/ago/2010, at 10.58, Ted Kord wrote:
>
> > I've updated the wiki, Luca. I wasn't reluctant to do it, I was just
> thinking it may have been too minor a thing.
> >
> > Ted
> >
> > On 30 August 2010 08:26, Luca Heltai <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 30/ago/2010, at 02.21, Ted Kord wrote:
> >
> > > Is it worth it?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > > All I did was remove --with-mumps and --with-blacs.
> >
> > Then all you have to write is that if you try to compile with these
> options for Trilinos "your trilinos version here" on a Mac "your mac here"
> with gcc "your gcc here", you might get the error "your_error_here".
> Removing these switches solves the problem.
> >
> > If you don't want to do it, jest send me the informations in between ""
> and I'll do it.
> >
> > Luca.
> >
> >
>
>
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