John Peterson, Thanks. I tried it with ./configure and it didn't work either but I will ask the SLEPc developers about it.
Thankfully, Harry Pearce On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 12:27 PM John Peterson <jwpeter...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 1:03 PM Harry Pearce <harroontheg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Libmesh Users, >> I am having trouble with getting slepc to read my PETSC_DIR environment >> variable. >> >> I successfully installed PETSC and set the environment variable for >> PETSC_DIR in my .bashrc file. When I try execute the following slepc >> configure script this is what happens: >> >> *hpearce@tcol >> :/islhome/hpearce/Libmesh_installation_starting_05_03_18/slepc-3.9.1$ >> sudo ./configureChecking environment... ERROR: PETSC_DIR enviroment >> variable is not set* >> I already double checked my .bashrc file, which is of relevance because >> I'm >> using a bash shell. The configure code in SLEPC activates a configure.py >> code. I used print commands to find the offending line of code in >> configure.py, which read: >> *petsc.InitDir(slepc.prefixdir)* >> > > > So... since it is SLEPc's configure script which is failing and not > libmesh's, you may have better luck contacting the SLEPc developers for > help debugging this problem. > > Off the top of my head though, the problem could be that you are running > "sudo configure". This has the effect of running configure in an > administrative account's (root) environment, and that environment probably > does not set PETSC_DIR. configure shouldn't require elevated privileges, > only the last step, "sudo make install" should require that. > > -- > John > > _______________________________________________ Libmesh-users mailing list Libmesh-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-users
