On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Sean Farley <sean at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: >> >> Seeeeaaaannnnnn! >> >> Yes Jed I know Apple computers suck. >> >> But how do I fix this? Note that simply changing SCALAPACK.py to >> scalapack.py doesn't resolve the problem. Note also that SCALAPACK is of the >> FORTRAN, LINPACK, EISPACK ilk where the name is officially and correctly ALL >> IN CAPS so in fact SCALAPACK.py should remain SCALAPACK.py and not move to >> lower case :-( >> >> Google only led me to old posts that I don't trust to resolve the problem. > > From the commit message, > > https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc-dev/commits/6452035a0fe16cff7e7ff959c07b52f2708cf2a0 > > "Also, the genius that decided to use the case-sensitive spelling of a > package's filename within buildsystem has ensured that there will > *always* be future repository problems since most of the developers > (e.g. Barry) have case-insensitive filesystems. This will be > problematic for bisection as well." > > Basically, the package name has to be lowercase for the file to > download (notice the link is all lowercase). > > P.S. - Why all the Apple hate? You can change the filesystem to be > case-sensitive, if you'd like.
P.P.S. - If you have no changes in SCALAPACK.py (actually, it should be ScaLAPACK) then just delete the file and run `hg revert config/PETSc/packages/scalapack.py`
