On Mar 22, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Matthew Knepley wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > On Mar 22, 2011, at 11:22 AM, Satish Balay wrote: > > > If --download-package doesn't work - it prints the URL of the package. > > > > If we need to document this further - 'configure --help' should print > > the defulat URLs for packages. > > Yes it should print it! The problem is that --help also prints a ton of > stuff that gets confusing and in the way of important things. Better way to > organize the output? > > Okay, no one replied to my other suggestion. How about > > ./configure --help Hypre > > prints only help for the Hypre section
I think this is a good approach. This general mechanism will allow getting help for any particular subpart that people want help in. Most PETSc users don't know grep from a hole in the wall so that is not a good solution. Barry > > Matt > > Barry > > > > Satish > > > > On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Barry Smith wrote: > > > >> > >> We need to make the specific tar file version more transparent: > >> > >> When the tarball is generated should a nice list of the tarballs for each > >> external packages be automatically generated and put somehow in the > >> document? Should we have a tool that extracts that information from the > >> appropriate XXX.py upon request? How to tell people about this tool? If we > >> have to tell them about the tool we might as just well tell them to look > >> in the appropriate config/PETSc/packages/XXXX.py or > >> config/BuildSystem/config/packagesXXX.py directly? > >> > >> Barry > >> > >> > >> > >> On Mar 22, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Satish Balay wrote: > >> > >>> Which version of PETSc are you using? The URL for hypre is listed in > >>> config/PETSc/packages/hypre.py - for any given version of petsc. > >>> > >>> for petsc-3.1 its: > >>> http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/externalpackages/hypre-2.6.0b.tar.gz > >>> > >>> Satish > >>> > >>> On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Verena Kuhlemann wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hello, > >>>> > >>>> I was wondering which version of HYPRE one should use with Petsc. I need > >>>> to > >>>> download it before > >>>> the configuration of Petsc as --download-hypre=1 is not working for me. > >>>> > >>>> Thanks, > >>>> Verena > >>>> > >>> > >> > >> > > > > > > > -- > 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
