On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Richard Tran Mills <rtm at eecs.utk.edu>wrote:
> Hi Folks, > > I occasionally see messages like this from configure.py: > > Error running make on HDF5: Could not execute "cd >> /home/rmills/proj/petsc-dev/**externalpackages/hdf5-1.8.6 && make clean >> && make && make install": >> Runaway process exceeded time limit of 2500s >> > But the only real problem is that I am building on a machine that is a > slow POS (and often is part of a O($100 million) supercomputer). 1) Is > there a way to increase this timeout on the command line?, and 2) if so, > could we have configure.py tell the user this option when it bails out due > to this time limit? > We don't have a uniform timeout option since we have dozens of different timeouts in the code. It is an argument to executeShellCommand(). I think the best place to put an option might be in package.py for a package install. Matt > Thanks, > Richard > > -- > Richard Tran Mills, Ph.D. > Computational Earth Scientist | Joint Assistant Professor > Hydrogeochemical Dynamics Team | EECS and Earth & Planetary Sciences > Oak Ridge National Laboratory | University of Tennessee, Knoxville > E-mail: rmills at ornl.gov V: 865-241-3198 > http://climate.ornl.gov/~**rmills<http://climate.ornl.gov/~rmills> > > -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20130313/913f5159/attachment.html>
