If PETSc requires distutils.sysconfig then ./Configure should check for it and print a very useful error message if it does not find it.
We can't have python crashes off at build time with confusing error messages that users cannot decipher. Barry > On Jul 31, 2020, at 11:00 AM, Satish Balay via petsc-users > <petsc-us...@mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > You still get this error message - so its likely not installed. To confirm > you [and the admin] can run: > > python3 -c "import distutils.sysconfig" > > [and see if you get an error or not] > > You can also try python2 as I suggested in my earlier e-mail [if distutils is > installed for python2] > > python2 -c "import distutils.sysconfig" > > python2 ./configure ... > > Satish > > > On Fri, 31 Jul 2020, Eda Oktay wrote: > >> Dear Matt, >> >> Administrator installed python3-dib-utils but still I am getting the >> same error message. I attached configure.log and make.log again. >> >> Thanks! >> >> Eda >> >> Matthew Knepley <knep...@gmail.com>, 31 Tem 2020 Cum, 13:20 tarihinde >> şunu yazdı: >>> >>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 4:15 AM Eda Oktay <eda.ok...@metu.edu.tr> wrote: >>>> >>>> Dear Satish, >>>> >>>> I configured petsc-3.13.2. Is this still the same problem? >>> >>> >>> Yes, you need the distutils package installed. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Matt >>> >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> Eda >>>> >>>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2020, 10:50 AM Satish Balay <ba...@mcs.anl.gov> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>> File "./config/gmakegen.py", line 4, in <module> >>>>> from distutils.sysconfig import parse_makefile >>>>> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.sysconfig' >>>>> <<<<< >>>>> >>>>> For one - if you used petsc-3.13.3 - it would have also tried python2 - >>>>> or given a reasonable error message. >>>>> >>>>> If you have python2 - you can try: >>>>> >>>>> python2 ./configure ... >>>>> >>>>> Or you can ask sysadmin on this machine to install python3-distutils or >>>>> equivalent package. >>>>> >>>>> Satish >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, 31 Jul 2020, Eda Oktay wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>> >>>>>> I configured petsc-3.13.2 with following options: >>>>>> >>>>>> ./configure --with-cc=gcc --with-cxx=g++ --with-fc=gfortran >>>>>> --download-mpich --download-openblas --download-metis >>>>>> --download-parmetis --download-chaco --download-slepc --with-X=1 >>>>>> >>>>>> However, I got a make error. >>>>>> >>>>>> I attached make.log and configure.log, how can I fix that problem? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks! >>>>>> >>>>>> Eda >>>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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 >>> >>> https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/ >>
