On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Richard Tran Mills <r...@eecs.utk.edu> wrote:
> Hi Satish, > > I got this message attempting to use the Gnu compilers; that's all that > I've got on this system. Should I send the configure.log to petsc-maint? > Want to add self.downloadonWindows = 1 to __init__ of config/BuildSystem/config/packages/hdf5.py and see if it work? Thanks, Matt > --Richard > > On 10/4/13 4:34 PM, Satish Balay wrote: > >> On Fri, 4 Oct 2013, Richard Tran Mills wrote: >> >> Hi Folks, >>> >>> If I tell configure.py '--download-hdf5=1', I get a message that >>> "External >>> package hdf5 does not support --download-hdf5 on Microsoft Windows". >>> However, >>> I just built HDF5 1.8.11 from source under 64-bit Cygwin and, except for >>> one >>> problem with building the 'h5ls' utility, it appears that this ought to >>> work. >>> Can we support this? And what is the procedure for changing package >>> configuration info in BuildSystem these days? These files show up in the >>> 'petsc' repo but there appears to be a 'buildsystem' repo on BitBucket as >>> well; not sure what the relationship is between them. >>> >> When you say 'Supporting --download-hdf5 in Cygwin' and refer to 64-bit - >> you >> mean MS compilers or cygwin gcc/gfortran? >> >> The error message should come up only with MS compilers. >> >> Presumably --download-hdf5 should work with gnu compilers - if it doesn't >> - it >> probably needs some tweaking. >> >> Wrt repo - we now have a single git repo bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc >> where all petsc/buildsystem changes should go to. >> >> Satish >> >> > -- 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