I could not do all things you posted below. I get these:
Scott-Grad-MacBook-Pro:petsc-3.8.3 zhihui$ cd src
Scott-Grad-MacBook-Pro:src zhihui$ cd benchmarks/
Scott-Grad-MacBook-Pro:benchmarks zhihui$ mpicc -c sizeof.c
Scott-Grad-MacBook-Pro:benchmarks zhihui$ ls -l sizeof.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 zhihui staff 1452 Oct 25 17:00 sizeof.o
Scott-Grad-MacBook-Pro:benchmarks zhihui$ /usr/bin/ar cr /tmp/libconf1.a
sizeof.o
ar: temporary file: No such file or directory
Scott-Grad-MacBook-Pro:benchmarks zhihui$ /usr/bin/ar cr /tmp/libconf1.a
sizeof.o
ar: temporary file: No such file or directory
Scott-Grad-MacBook-Pro:benchmarks zhihui$
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From: "Balay, Satish";<ba...@mcs.anl.gov>;
Date: Oct 26, 2018
To: "avatar"<648934...@qq.com>;
Cc: "petsc-users"<petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov>;
Subject: Re: [petsc-users] "Could not find a suitable archiver. Use
--with-arto specify an archiver"
On Fri, 26 Oct 2018, avatar wrote:
> Hi Satish,
>
>
> Thank you very much for your quick response.
>
>
> The log file is as follow:
>
>>>>>>
Executing: /usr/bin/ar cr /tmp/petsc-mjVUVK/config.setCompilers/libconf1.a
/tmp/petsc-mjVUVK/config.setCompilers/conf1.o
Possible ERROR while running archiver: exit code 256
stderr:
ar: temporary file: No such file or directory
Archiver is not functional
<<<<<<
This is a strange error.
What do you get when you do the following:
balay@jpro^~/petsc(maint-3.8) $ cd src/benchmarks/
balay@jpro^~/petsc/src/benchmarks(maint-3.8) $ mpicc -c sizeof.c
balay@jpro^~/petsc/src/benchmarks(maint-3.8) $ ls -l sizeof.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 balay staff 3036 Oct 25 17:54 sizeof.o
balay@jpro^~/petsc/src/benchmarks(maint-3.8) $ /usr/bin/ar cr /tmp/libconf1.a
sizeof.o
balay@jpro^~/petsc/src/benchmarks(maint-3.8) $ ls -l /tmp/libconf1.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 balay wheel 3224 Oct 25 17:55 /tmp/libconf1.a
balay@jpro^~/petsc/src/benchmarks(maint-3.8) $ ar t /tmp/libconf1.a
__.SYMDEF SORTED
sizeof.o
balay@jpro^~/petsc/src/benchmarks(maint-3.8) $ cp sizeof.o /tmp/
balay@jpro^~/petsc/src/benchmarks(maint-3.8) $ ls -l /tmp/sizeof.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 balay wheel 3036 Oct 25 17:55 /tmp/sizeof.o
balay@jpro^~/petsc/src/benchmarks(maint-3.8) $ /usr/bin/ar cr /tmp/libconf2.a
/tmp/sizeof.o
balay@jpro^~/petsc/src/benchmarks(maint-3.8) $ ls -l /tmp/libconf2.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 balay wheel 3224 Oct 25 17:55 /tmp/libconf2.a
balay@jpro^~/petsc/src/benchmarks(maint-3.8) $ ar t /tmp/libconf2.a
__.SYMDEF SORTED
sizeof.o
balay@jpro^~/petsc/src/benchmarks(maint-3.8) $
Satish
