Ah - the .git stuff is in the tarball. try 'rm -rf .git' and redo configure
Satish On Tue, 9 Apr 2013, Tabrez Ali wrote: > Hello > > The 105MB nightly tarball available at > http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/petsc-dev.tar.gz doesn't seem to work (see > below) for me. How can I download the the latest petsc-dev (including the > build-system) without all the commit history? > > Also is v3.4 coming anytime soon? > > Thanks in advance. > > Tabrez > > stali at i5:/tmp/petsc-dev$ ./configure --with-mpi-dir=/opt/mpich2-gcc > --with-metis=1 --download-metis=1 --with-debugging=0 > =============================================================================== > Configuring PETSc to compile on your system > =============================================================================== > TESTING: configureInstallationMethod from > PETSc.utilities.petscdir(config/PETSc/utilities/petscdir.py:84) > ******************************************************************************* > UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS (see configure.log for > details): > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Your petsc-dev directory is broken, remove the entire directory and start all > over again > ******************************************************************************* > >
