On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Kyunghoon Lee wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Kyunghoon Lee <aeronova.mailing at > > gmail.com > > > wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I configured petsc-3.2-p7 with the following options: > >> > >> ./configure > >> --prefix=/Users/aeronova/Development/local/lib64/petsc/petsc-3.2-p7 > >> --download-mpich=1 --download-blacs=1 --download-parmetis=1 > >> --download-metis=1 --download-scalapack=1 --download-mumps=1 > >> --download-umfpack=1 --with-clanguage=C++ > >> > > > > Possibly a stale package file in externalpackages/. > > > > But you should upgrade to petsc-3.3 before bothering more with this. It > > has metis-5.0 which fixes many critical bugs. > > > > Thank you for the reply. I checked the metis directory in > externalpackages, but there is no file named "state": > > CHANGES Graphs/ Lib/ > Makefile.in VERSION > Doc/ INSTALL METISLib/ > Programs/ arch-darwin-cxx-debug/ > FILES LICENSE Makefile > Test/ make.inc > > Re petsc-3.3, I need to check its compatibility with libmesh, since I need > petsc mainly for libmesh.
you don't need --download-metis for petsc-3.2 [--download-parmetis=1 installs metis for you] [--download-metis=1 is broken in petsc-3.2. Also petsc-3.2 doesn't directly use metis] Satish
