On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 14:00 +0530, Harish Narayanan wrote: > On 8/23/10 1:57 PM, Garth N. Wells wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 13:51 +0530, Harish Narayanan wrote: > >> 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. > >> > > > > I thought we were using MacPorts - does OSX come with MPI? Is that the > > one that points to gcc 4.0? > > > > I don't understand the point on the buildchain. > > Yes, OS X comes with MPI. That's the one that points to gcc4.2 on Snow > Leopard and gcc4.0 on Leopard. > > The point is that (retarded as they are), you have Apple-blessed > versions of Python, OpenMPI, GCC, X etc. as part of the OS. When one > insists on doing everything from MacPorts, you bypass this existing set > of tools entirely. >
Which one will probably want to do if they ship such old versions of gcc and their MPI doesn't support Fortran ;). Sounds a bit like RHEL. Garth > Harish _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dorsal Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dorsal More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
