I had a similar problem. I had to have our sysadmins install the diff package *after* they had already installed the Python and make packages. So it looks like the dependencies got changed...
Tom -----Original Message----- From: petsc-dev-bounces at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lisandro Dalcin Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 12:12 PM To: For users of the development version of PETSc Subject: Re: building PETSc on Windows On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > The last I checked, when 'make,python' are selected - 'diffutils' is a > dependent package - that gets installed. Perhaps some dependencies > changed in the last few years - so I should list 'diffutils' in this > list? > I believe I will not be able to confirm that without reinstalling Cygwin from scratch... But I do not see way diffutils should be a dependency for make or python... -- Lisandro Dalc?n --------------- Centro Internacional de M?todos Computacionales en Ingenier?a (CIMEC) Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnol?gico para la Industria Qu?mica (INTEC) Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient?ficas y T?cnicas (CONICET) PTLC - G?emes 3450, (3000) Santa Fe, Argentina Tel/Fax: +54-(0)342-451.1594
