Hm self.downloadonWindows is supposed to be for MS compilers only. If thats not the case - the bug is somewere else..
satish On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, Richard Tran Mills wrote: > Matt, > > I tried this and it works under 32-bit Cygwin. It should also work under > 64-bit Cygwin except that it hits an error when building the 'h5ls' target > (can overcome this by telling make to ignore errors or by making a small patch > to the relevant HDF5 code--this is a Cygwin64/HDF5 problem and has nothing to > do with BuildSystem). > > Can we go ahead and get this change into 'master' ASAP? I am not sure of the > proper workflow to use for such a small change as this. I'd like > --download-hdf5 to be working before I leave for Germany in a few days to do a > short course there. > > --Richard > > On 10/4/13 5:45 PM, Matthew Knepley wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Richard Tran Mills <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > Hi Satish, > > > > I got this message attempting to use the Gnu compilers; that's all > > that I've got on this system. Should I send the configure.log to > > petsc-maint? > > > > > > Want to add > > > > self.downloadonWindows = 1 > > > > to __init__ of config/BuildSystem/config/packages/hdf5.py and see if it > > work? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Matt > > > > --Richard > > > > On 10/4/13 4:34 PM, Satish Balay wrote: > > > > On Fri, 4 Oct 2013, Richard Tran Mills wrote: > > > > Hi Folks, > > > > If I tell configure.py '--download-hdf5=1', I get a message > > that "External > > package hdf5 does not support --download-hdf5 on Microsoft > > Windows". However, > > I just built HDF5 1.8.11 from source under 64-bit Cygwin > > and, except for one > > problem with building the 'h5ls' utility, it appears that > > this ought to work. > > Can we support this? And what is the procedure for changing > > package > > configuration info in BuildSystem these days? These files > > show up in the > > 'petsc' repo but there appears to be a 'buildsystem' repo on > > BitBucket as > > well; not sure what the relationship is between them. > > > > When you say 'Supporting --download-hdf5 in Cygwin' and refer to > > 64-bit - you > > mean MS compilers or cygwin gcc/gfortran? > > > > The error message should come up only with MS compilers. > > > > Presumably --download-hdf5 should work with gnu compilers - if > > it doesn't - it > > probably needs some tweaking. > > > > Wrt repo - we now have a single git repo > > bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc <http://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc> > > where all petsc/buildsystem changes should go to. > > > > Satish > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > 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 > > >
