Comment 2 for bug 894134

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 08:17:10PM -0000, Garth Wells wrote:
> Dorsal should not be building PaStiX. It is seriously experimental.

I don't see a problem with having a pastix.package in Dorsal with the
best possible flags (based on the collective experience of FEniCS
developers). Then anyone can experimentally add it to their build.

--
Anders

> Dorsal should not let PETSc build PaStiX because the PETSc 3.2 build
> of PaStiX and the PETSc 3.2 interface to PaStiX are broken.
>
> Garth
>
> On 23 November 2011 19:57, Martin Sandve Alnæs
> <email address hidden> wrote:
> > Public bug reported:
> >
> > Trying to build latest fenics unstable with dorsal on our cluster
> > bigblue using ubuntu 10.04, I get this:
> >
> >
> > -- Performing Test PASTIX_TEST_RUNS
> > CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set to NOTFOUND.
> > Please set them or make sure they are set and tested correctly in the CMake files:
> > HWLOC_LIBRARY
> >    linked by target "cmTryCompileExec" in directory /home/martinal/opt/fenics/dorsal-unstable-src/dolfin/dorsal_build_dir/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp
> >
> > CMake Error: Internal CMake error, TryCompile configure of cmake failed
> > -- Performing Test PASTIX_TEST_RUNS - Failed
> > -- PaStiX could not be found. Be sure to set PASTIX_DIR. (missing:  PASTIX_TEST_RUNS)
> >
> >
> > Dorsal has built pastix:
> >
> > martinal@bigblue:~$ ls opt/fenics/dorsal-unstable/lib/libpastix
> > libpastix_32bit_mpi_smp_nobubble_int32_double_real_scotch_i686_pc_linux.a        libpastix_murge_32bit_mpi_smp_nobubble_int32_double_real_scotch_i686_pc_linux.a
> > libpastix.a                                                                      libpastix_murge.a
> >
> >
> > I do not really care if I get pastix or not, but this seems to be
> > a bug either in dorsal or the dolfin configuration system.
> >
> > ** Affects: dorsal
> >     Importance: Undecided
> >         Status: New
> >
> >
> > Title:
> >  Cmake error when "Performing Test PASTIX_TEST_RUNS" in dolfin unstable
> >  build
> >
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> >
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