On Dec 19, 2011, at 12:06 AM, Dave Nystrom wrote: > Several of the external packages that have been interfaced with petsc require > mpi. Is there a way to build a serial version of petsc with these packages > and use stub routines for mpi?
MUMPS can be built without MPI using petsc-dev but all of the other packages require MPI, no way around it that's the way their author's wrote them. Barry > I know there are fortran stub routines, > i.e. mpiuni, that I am using for my application which is currently serial. > But is there a way to have petsc build these external packages that require > mpi and use some serial stub routines? I tried building petsc with several > of these external packages while using the --with-mpi=0 configure option and > the build process would always fail and tell me to download mpi. I'm > interested in being able to do this since my code is currently serial. > > Thanks, > > Dave