Re: RFH: petsc
Hi Adam,
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@debian.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm having two problems with PETSc, and need some help.
>
> First is the HPPA issue (below), for which I just supplied a list of
> arches for binary packages which includes everything but HPPA. But
> unlike say openmpi, the HPPA buildd doesn't indicate "Not-for-us", but
> tried to build it. [1] How do I specify that petsc is not for hppa? Or
> will that change happen automatically following resolution of
> ftp.debian.org RM bug 588344 (just filed)?
>
> [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=petsc
>
> Second, I just uploaded a new version, and although the build process
> reports that it builds the libraries just fine, they are not installed
> during the install step -- though on my machine it all works fine. This
> seems odd to me, as "install" is just a matter of copying everything:
>
> cp -a linux-gnu-c-opt/lib debian/libpetsc3.1-dev/usr/lib/petscdir/3.1/linux-gnu-c-opt/
>
> The linux-gnu-c-opt/lib directory is PETSC_LIB_DIR, but it must be
> empty, because the corresponding directory in the package is empty.
>
> Can someone else try to build it, and let me know what's in the
> linux-gnu-c-opt/lib directory at the end?
I built PETSc in pbuilder and this is the contents in the
linux-gnu-c-opt/lib folder:
# ls -lh linux-gnu-c-opt/lib/
total 19M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13M Jul 12 20:33 libpetsc.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6.0M Jul 12 20:33 libpetsc.so
Johannes
> Thanks,
> Adam
>
> On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 08:46 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
>> On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 20:24 +0200, Christophe Prud'homme wrote:
>> > what are your plans regarding the build issue of petsc3.1 on hppa ?
>>
>> I have no idea on how to resolve this issue. It seems to be a low-level
>> problem with python, and there was a suggestion that certain kernels
>> worked and others didn't. And it sometimes builds, sometimes does not
>> -- when the problem first showed up, it built approximately once out of
>> every three attempts, but the last several attempts have all failed.
>>
>> So it's a complex HPPA-only issue which seems like a lot more trouble to
>> solve than it's worth.
>>
>> > at the moment this issue blocks slepc and life from reaching testing
>> > Should I change the build-depends to petsc 3.0 on hppa ? or are you
>> > planning an upload the next few days ?
>>
>> The best way forward I know of is to make this a non-hppa package, which
>> all of its derivatives would be as well. The problem exists on petsc
>> 3.0 as well, whose hppa version needs to be removed from the archive.
>>
>> I need to take care of one other issue, and should be able to upload
>> this later this week.
>>
>> -Adam
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