>>>
Looking for ML at git.ml, hg.ml or a directory starting
with petsc-pkg-ml
Could not locate an existing copy of ML:
['ml-6.2']
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So configure was looking for something with 'petsc-pkg-ml' - and it
did not find it. [there was
Always look in configure.log to see the exact error.
No - configure does not do checksums - but it expcects the package to
be in a certain format [and this can change between petsc versions].
So if you are using a url from petsc-3.5 - with 3.7 -- it might not
work..
So for any version of petsc -
Here is a small complaint about the error message "unable to
download" that is given when using
--download-PACKAGENAME=/PATH/TO/package.tar.gz with the wrong
tarball. For example, for my previous install, I was using
petsc-3.5.3 with:
--download-ml=/path/to/ml-6.2-win.tar.gz
Using the same file