You need 'master' branch from petsc git repo for this to work - not petsc-3.7.6
Satish On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, Denis Davydov wrote: > I already tried building PETSc with 0.87.7, the error is: > > petsc-3.7.6/src/mat/impls/elemental/matelem.cxx:653:7: error: no matching > function for call to 'SolveAfter' > El::lu::SolveAfter(El::NORMAL,*a->emat,*a->pivot,xer); > ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > elemental-0.87.7-arf6zkytd5mmyckplcrjiin3zapbhvyt/include/El/lapack_like/factor.hpp:552:6: > note: candidate function [with Field = double] not viable: no known > conversion from 'El::DistMatrix<PetscInt, El::VC, El::STAR>' (aka > 'DistMatrix<int, El::VC, El::STAR>') to 'const El::DistPermutation' for 3rd > argument > > > strangely enough I have the same issues with 0.87.4: > > > /petsc-3.7.6/src/mat/impls/elemental/matelem.cxx:653:7: error: no matching > function for call to 'SolveAfter' > El::lu::SolveAfter(El::NORMAL,*a->emat,*a->pivot,xer); > ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > /elemental-0.87.4-xas7fy5wlvgtr2a4i7kqm52metc73tqk/include/El/lapack_like/factor.hpp:549:6: > note: candidate function [with F = double] not viable: no known conversion > from 'El::DistMatrix<PetscInt, El::VC, El::STAR>' (aka 'DistMatrix<int, > El::VC, El::STAR>') to 'const El::DistPermutation' for 3rd argument > void SolveAfter > ^ > /elemental-0.87.4-xas7fy5wlvgtr2a4i7kqm52metc73tqk/include/El/lapack_like/factor.hpp:543:6: > note: candidate template ignored: could not match 'Matrix' against > 'DistMatrix' > void SolveAfter > ^ > /elemental-0.87.4-xas7fy5wlvgtr2a4i7kqm52metc73tqk/include/El/lapack_like/factor.hpp:530:6: > note: candidate function template not viable: requires 3 arguments, but 4 > were provided > void SolveAfter > ^ > /elemental-0.87.4-xas7fy5wlvgtr2a4i7kqm52metc73tqk/include/El/lapack_like/factor.hpp:535:6: > note: candidate function template not viable: requires 3 arguments, but 4 > were provided > void SolveAfter > ^ > /elemental-0.87.4-xas7fy5wlvgtr2a4i7kqm52metc73tqk/include/El/lapack_like/factor.hpp:558:6: > note: candidate function template not viable: requires 5 arguments, but 4 > were provided > void SolveAfter > ^ > /elemental-0.87.4-xas7fy5wlvgtr2a4i7kqm52metc73tqk/include/El/lapack_like/factor.hpp:565:6: > note: candidate function template not viable: requires 5 arguments, but 4 > were provided > void SolveAfter > ^ > > Regards, > Denis > > > On 5 Sep 2017, at 16:43, Satish Balay <ba...@mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > > > You could try (with petsc master): > > > > --download-elemental-commit=v0.87.7 > > > > Latest elemental master appears to have major changes [including C++14 > > reqirement] - so that might require more work.. > > > > Satish > > > > On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, Denis Davydov wrote: > > > >> Hi Karl, > >> > >> Thanks for the prompt reply, > >> I did not notice that I was not looking at the master branch. > >> I will try with 0.87.4... > >> > >> It would still be good if PETSc supports the most recent Elemental. > >> > >> Regards, > >> Denis. > >> > >>> On 5 Sep 2017, at 15:10, Karl Rupp <r...@iue.tuwien.ac.at> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi Denis, > >>> > >>>> I just tried compiling PETSc with Elemental 0.87.7 and got compiler > >>>> errors (see below) which suggests that the interface in PETSc is > >>>> outdated. > >>>> Looking at the “elemental.py” > >>>> https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/src/90564b43f6b05485163c147b464b5d6d28cde3ef/config/BuildSystem/config/packages/elemental.py?at=hongzh%2Fswe&fileviewer=file-view-default > >>>> > >>>> <https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/src/90564b43f6b05485163c147b464b5d6d28cde3ef/config/BuildSystem/config/packages/elemental.py?at=hongzh/swe&fileviewer=file-view-default> > >>>> I see that the suggested Elemental's commit is from Nov 2015 > >>>> https://github.com/elemental/Elemental/commit/e81005dc3af9b331d43e16e4d221e889378e2c49 > >>>> whereas 0.87.7 is from Feb. 2017; There are 8 releases in between. > >>> > >>> the master branch of PETSc uses version 0.87.4 from November 2016: > >>> https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/src/743f4829774bac6ed514af01aa0f24f18a42afc0/config/BuildSystem/config/packages/elemental.py?at=master&fileviewer=file-view-default > >>> > >>> Best regards, > >>> Karli > >> > >> > >