On Sun, 27 Apr 2008, Farshid Mossaiby wrote: > Hi, > > Configure says it cannot make ParMetis with the option > --download-parmetis. Is this related to Visual Studio > 2008 compiler I use, or something else is wrong? Here > is the message:
Most externalpackages are never tested by their original authors with MS compilers. And we have not tried porting them to them. So most of them won't compile - hence --download-packagename might not work. BTW: Currently my test windows box is down - so I can't check if this is supporsed to work with MS compilers. > Error running make on ParMetis: Could not execute 'cd > /home/Administrator/petsc-2.3.3-p12/externalpackages/ParMetis-dev; > make clean; make lib; make minstall; make clean': > make: *** No rule to make target `clean'. Stop. > make: *** No rule to make target `lib'. Stop. > make: *** No rule to make target `minstall'. Stop. > make: *** No rule to make target `clean'. Stop. > ********************************************************************************* > > Regards, > Farshid Mossaiby > > P.S. I hope this is appropriate place to ask this. The appropriate thing is to send us the relavent log files [configure.log etc] - and these can't be sent to petsc-user list [we don't want to flood petsc-users subscribers with multi-megabyte logfiles]. So the appropriate place is petsc-maint - with the relavent logfiles. Satish
