On Mon, 20 Nov 2017, Randall Mackie wrote: > Dear PETSc team: > > On upgrading to version 3.8, we have discovered an inconsistency in the > python configuration scripts for using Intel MKL for BLAS/LAPACK. > It seems that these options were changed between 3.7 and 3.8: > > > Version 3.8: > --with-blaslapack-lib=libsunperf.a > --with-blas-lib=libblas.a --with-lapack-lib=liblapack.a > --with-blaslapack-dir=/soft/com/packages/intel/13/079/mkl > > Version 3.7: > --with-blas-lapack-lib=libsunperf.a > --with-blas-lib=libblas.a --with-lapack-lib=liblapack.a > --with-blas-lapack-dir=/soft/com/packages/intel/13/079/mkl > > So a hyphen was inserted with the lib and dir options.
Actually a hyphen was removed in 3.8 > > However, we found that at least in the mkl_pardiso.py script it still looks > for a hyphen, but in other scripts we checked it doesn’t (although we did not > do an exhaustive search). Hm - 'blas-lapack' is listed in an error message. Pushed a fix to 'maint' now. Satish > > We know that you are not connected to Intel, but maybe someone from Intel > reads these messages, as their web pages that explain how to install Petsc > are wrong and conform to the pre-3.8 options: > > https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/enabling-intel-mkl-in-petsc-applications > > <https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/enabling-intel-mkl-in-petsc-applications> > > https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/mkl-blas-lapack-with-petsc > <https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/mkl-blas-lapack-with-petsc> > > > Thanks, Randy Mackie > >
