On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Dominik Szczerba <dominik at itis.ethz.ch>wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Why use sudo in the first place? > I am not a mac user, but normally on unix sudo is the last thing you > want to use during everyday work (provided that you are at all allowed > to use it). > Not sure why you would think that. In fact, sudo is the safe way to do things and recommended for everyday usage. Matt > Dominik > > Satish Balay wrote: > > Perhaps 'sudo' is not proegating PETSC_DIR,PETSC_ARCH variables > > properly? > > > > Try 'sudo /bin/bash' and do the whole install in that shell. > > > > BTW: you have a typo with PETSC_ARCH further down.. And we recommend > > using COPTFLAGS, FOPTFLAGS --with-debugging=0 for optimziation builds. > > > > Satish > > > > On Mon, 21 Dec 2009, hxie at umn.edu wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> My operation system is Mac OS X 10.6.2. I unzip the petsc under > >> /usr/local/petsc-3.0.0-p10. > >> I use the following to configure petsc. > >> ------- > >> sudo ./config/configure.py --CFLAGS=-O3 --FFLAGS=-O3 > >> --with-mpi-dir=/usr/local/mpich2-1.2.1 --with-fortran --with-shared=0 > >> --with-fc=gfortran > >> ------- > >> > >> And I run the following commands: > >> ---- > >> export PETS_ARCH=darwin10.2.0-c-debug; > >> PETSC_DIR=/usr/local/petsc-3.0.0-p10; export PETSC_DIR > >> ---- > >> > >> When I run " sudo make all", it gives some errors: > >> ----- > >> makefile:15: /conf/base: No such file or directory > >> makefile:16: /conf/test: No such file or directory > >> make: *** No rule to make target `/conf/test'. Stop. > >> ----- > >> > >> It seems it cannot find the PETSC_DIR. (I use x11. "echo $SHELL" gets > >> "/bin/bash") > >> Do I need to add "PETSC_DIR = /usr/local/petsc-3.0.0-p10" in the > makefile > >> file? Thanks. > >> > >> Bests, > >> Hui > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAksv5Q0ACgkQ/EBMh9bUuzJGugCgiCLXN7u5flIjSk2PRDEFMKRy > KfUAn1kP90FbNBvFZNsvkIjNnEv4ovJX > =KArD > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- 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-users/attachments/20091221/438929fd/attachment.htm>