Issue configuring PETSc during FF installation on Mac

FreeFEM installation
1

Hello,

I am trying to install FreeFEM v 4.6 on my mac (macOS Big Sur version 11.0.1) via the terminal using the source code, and I come across this issue while trying to configure PETSc:

===============================================================================
Configuring PETSc to compile on your system

TESTING: checkFortranCompiler from config.setCompilers(config/BuildSystem/config/setCompilers.py:960) *******************************************************************************
UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS (see configure.log for details):

Fortran compiler you provided with --with-fc=/usr/local/bin/mpif90 cannot be found or does not work.
Cannot compile/link FC with /usr/local/bin/mpif90.

make: *** [petsc-3.13.0/tag-conf-real] Error 1

I am not sure how to properly complete installation.

Thank you.

2

Please try again with FreeFEM 4.8 and let me know if this is fixed. If not, please attach both config.log and 3rdparty/ff-petsc/petsc-3.14.2/configure.log.

3

Hello,

I tried installing v4.8 and I was able to successfully configure PETSc; however I run into a different issue trying to build the FreeFEM library and executable. I have attached a screenshot of the terminal output.

Thank you.

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4

You should be able to configure with --disable-freeyams to fix this issue.

5

Okay. Which config file should I change to implement that command?

6

config.param, then ./reconfigure.

7

I tried that but it’s not working either. It says it’s an unrecognized option:

configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --disable-freeyams

8

Sorry, please try --disable-yams instead.

9

I think that helped, but now I’m trying to run examples and I get this error message:

dyld: Library not loaded: @rpath/libhdf5.103.dylib

10

You have some HDF5 files lying around which have been picked up by configure.
Please also add '--without-hdf5'.

11

It worked! Thank you very much.

12

Hello @prj ,

I have another issue compiling PETSc - this time on a linux system. The error seems to be an issue in compiling PTScotch. I have attached the screen output as well as the config.log file to aid in debugging.

Thank you.

Screen Shot 2021-04-26 at 2.25.52 PM
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config.log (416 Bytes)

13

And yet you are still not attaching the proper configure.log file… I need the one from 3rdparty/ff-petsc/petsc-3.15.0.

14

My apologies.

Here is the correct file.configure.log (1.0 MB)

15

You don’t have access to a newer GCC compiler, by any chance?

16

There is a workaround there: Compiltion errors on Centos 7, but you GCC compiler is very old, so you’ll likely run into other issues.

17

I modified the config.param file to include '--disable-mmg'and '--disable-parmmg' and recompiled and tried make petsc-slepc again, but the same error seems to occur. I’ve attached the configure.log file again in case it is different the time. configure.log (770.5 KB)

18

Sorry, I didn’t link the proper answer for this particular error, here it is: Compiltion errors on Centos 7 - #3 by prj
You can remove '--disable-mmg' and '--disable-parmmg' from your config.param.

19

That did fix the PETSc compiling issue, so I ./reconfigure and everything looks good; however, when I run make I get a strange output/error. I’ve attached the screen output and config.log
Screen Shot 2021-04-26 at 4.26.26 PM config.log (191.6 KB)

20

Ipopt error, so you need to add --disable-ipopt in config.param.