On Tue, 15 Mar 2022, Shah Vitesh via petsc-users wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am on a linux mahine which has no internet connection. I am trying to
> install PETSc to use it in a crystal plasticity software.
> I am trying to follow a script given to me for PETSc installation that would
> work with this software. In the script during the configuration there is an
> option:
>
> --download-hdf5-fortran-bindings=1
>
> What does this option exactly do?
Its a modifier to --download-hdf5 - i.e it enables fortran-bindings in the hdf5
build.
> And is it possible that I download these hdf5 fortran bindings and then point
> the PETSc Configure tot he download path? I see that it is possible to do for
> other packages like superlu etc.
Yes.
> If yes, any ideas on where can these fortran bindings be downloaded from?
Its not a separate download of fortran bindings [but modifier to
--download-hdf5]
Here is what you would do:
>>>>
balay@sb /home/balay/petsc (release=)
$ ./configure --download-hdf5=1 --download-hdf5-fortran-bindings=1
--with-packages-download-dir=$HOME/tmp
=============================================================================================
Configuring PETSc to compile on your system
=============================================================================================
Download the following packages to /home/balay/tmp
hdf5
['https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/releases/hdf5-1.12/hdf5-1.12.1/src/hdf5-1.12.1.tar.bz2',
'http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/externalpackages/hdf5-1.12.1.tar.bz2']
Then run the script again
balay@sb /home/balay/petsc (release=)
$ cd $HOME/tmp
balay@sb /home/balay/tmp
$ wget -q
https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/releases/hdf5-1.12/hdf5-1.12.1/src/hdf5-1.12.1.tar.bz2
balay@sb /home/balay/tmp
$ ls -l
total 9500
-rw-r--r--. 1 balay balay 9724309 Jul 6 2021 hdf5-1.12.1.tar.bz2
balay@sb /home/balay/tmp
$ cd -
/home/balay/petsc
balay@sb /home/balay/petsc (release=)
$ ./configure --download-hdf5=1 --download-hdf5-fortran-bindings=1
--with-packages-download-dir=$HOME/tmp
<<<<<<
Satish
