On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Jed Brown wrote: > > > On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:00:04 -0500, Keita Teranishi <keita at cray.com> > wrote: > > > I'd like to know if you have had any problem with 3.1.1 and if you > > > have any plan to introduce this version in the forthcoming PETSc > > > release. > > > > I have had a local ParMetis-3.1.1 install for more than a year, with > > both petsc-release 3.0.0 and petsc-dev. If you have installed > > ParMetis-3.1.1 yourself, then you should have no problems > > --with-parmetis-dir=/path/to/parmetis-3.1.1. > > > > I didn't realize that --download-parmetis installs ParMetis-3.1.0 (plus > > some patches), but I expect that there will be no problem updating that > > to 3.1.1 (this is independent of PETSc's release, the ParMetis API did > > not change). > > Well the parmetis tarball [used by petsc] appears to have quiet a few > custom patches. Matt would have to go through some of that stuff to > see if they need to be migrated to ParMetis-3.1.0 or not. > > Also - at some point I redid the parmetis build makefiles to make it > easy for petsc configure to build parmetis. We have to go throught > that part aswell [and see if its still necessary] before we can > migrate --download-parmetis to this new version. > > So - lot of patches to check. [so I punted it earler when I visited > this issue]. > > Satish > As I recall the patches are: 1) George is not careful about declaring routines 2) He is sloppy with types at some points 3) There was one actual bug involved with checking bounds I can do this when I come back from KAUST. Matt -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20100323/95ab1dda/attachment.html>