On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 15:52 +0530, Arvind Ajoy wrote: > Dear Developers and Users, > > Firstly, thank you for this piece of software! I have been using the > Debian package for a month now, > and have been impressed with its capabilities. However, since I need > to enable VTK and SLEPc, I have > been trying to compile libmesh from sources.
As a maintainer of the Debian package, I welcome patches to add support for these. VTK 5 and SLEPc are both in Debian, so this shouldn't be hard. > I need SLEPc since I am trying to solve aome quantum physics > problems. This is resulting in errors which I list below. > > Some details regarding my configuration ( the computer is a Pentium D > system) > (a) gcc-4.2 and g++-4.2 for compilation. > (b) mpich 1.2.7 installed from debian repo. > (c) Compiled Petsc-2.3.3-p13 from source with the following config : > config/configure.py --with-cc=gcc --with-cxx=g++ --with-fc=g77 > --with-mpi-dir=/usr/lib/mpich/ > --with-debugging=1 --with-shared > (d)Compiled Slepc-2.3.3(including latest patches) from source. > (e)Libmesh config : ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/libmesh > --enable-slepc --enable-vtk --with-vtk-include=/usr/ > include/vtk-5.0 > > ================================================================================= > With libmesh-0.6.2, this results in the following error : [Sorry, can't help you with the error, at least not now.] If you want the Debian petsc with mpich, you can build the source package with PETSC_MPI=mpich ; if it doesn't work it's a bug. (I maintain that too. :-) > Looking at the archives of libmesh-devel and libmesh-users, I > understand that there are issues regarding imcompatibilities arising > between > petsc minor releases. This could possibly explain why libmesh-0.6.2 > generates errors against petsc-2.3.3-13; however, I thought that the > latest svn code of libmesh would compile against the latest petsc and > slepc versions. > > Any ideas as to how I can resolve these issues? Also, please let me > know which version of Petsc / Slepc works successfully against > libmesh-0.6.2 and the latest svn version. The Debian package builds just fine with petsc 2.3.3... Cheers, -Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Engineering consulting with open source tools http://www.opennovation.com/
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