Can you verify if you have /usr/bin/diff.exe installed with your cygwin installation?
Can you verify if you are using python from cygwin? If you encounter problems - send the corresponding configure.log to petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov [note: configure.log is too big to be posted on a mailing-list - so use the above e-mail] Satish On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Xiaoxu Wang wrote: > sorry, the question I want to ask is > > I got the following error when configuring Petsc, > 'Configure' object has no attribute 'diff' File "./config/configure.py", line > 166, in petsc_configure > when it runs to (out,err,status) = Configure.executeShellCommand(getattr(self, > 'diff')+' -w diff1 diff2'), line 56 in programs.py. > > > > Hi, > When I comfiguring Petsc under Windows and Cygwin, it always crashes when > it is checking for diff. The path is correct. It could be the difference > between '\' and '\\' in python causing the problem. How to solve this problem? > Or can I skip checking for 'diff'? Thank you for suggestions. > > Xiaoxu > >
