On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Lisandro Dalcin wrote: > On 16 March 2011 21:00, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > > > > > On Feb 8, 2011, at 6:31 AM, Jed Brown wrote: > > > >> > GCC now ships with the LGPL-licensed libquadmath library, which provides > >> > for targets with a __float128 datatype quad-precision mathematical > >> > functions. __float128 is available for targets on 32-bit x86, x86-64 and > >> > Itanium architectures. The libquadmath library is automatically built on > >> > such targets when building the Fortran compiler. > >> > >> http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/changes.html#libquadmath > >> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libquadmath/ > >> > >> Looks like this is something that actually works. GCC-4.6 is probably > >> about two months away from a release, but this should be functional now. > >> Perhaps it should be supported by petsc-3.2? > > > > ?Done (use ./configure --with-precision=__float128 --download-qblaslapack > > > > I got an error about "Unknown comression type in URL: > http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/externalpackages/qblaslapack.gz";... > (BTW, the error message has a typo, should be "compression"). The
pushed > trivial fix below solved the issue.. PLEASE PUSH! pushed satish
