On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Sean Farley <sean at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Sean Farley <sean at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: >>> >>> Seeeeaaaannnnnn! >>> >>> Yes Jed I know Apple computers suck. >>> >>> But how do I fix this? Note that simply changing SCALAPACK.py to >>> scalapack.py doesn't resolve the problem. Note also that SCALAPACK is of >>> the FORTRAN, LINPACK, EISPACK ilk where the name is officially and >>> correctly ALL IN CAPS so in fact SCALAPACK.py should remain SCALAPACK.py >>> and not move to lower case :-( >>> >>> Google only led me to old posts that I don't trust to resolve the >>> problem. >> >> From the commit message, >> >> https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc-dev/commits/6452035a0fe16cff7e7ff959c07b52f2708cf2a0 >> >> "Also, the genius that decided to use the case-sensitive spelling of a >> package's filename within buildsystem has ensured that there will >> *always* be future repository problems since most of the developers >> (e.g. Barry) have case-insensitive filesystems. This will be >> problematic for bisection as well." >> >> Basically, the package name has to be lowercase for the file to >> download (notice the link is all lowercase). >> >> P.S. - Why all the Apple hate? You can change the filesystem to be >> case-sensitive, if you'd like. > > P.P.S. - If you have no changes in SCALAPACK.py (actually, it should > be ScaLAPACK) then just delete the file and run `hg revert > config/PETSc/packages/scalapack.py`
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