problem building petsc port

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 3, 2010, at 01:35, Frédéric Dubois wrote:

> Hello,
> For a mysterious reason I am not able to generate petsc package on my mac (os 10.6.x)
> As suggested I had a look to the main.log file.
> It seems that the problem comes from the configuration stage.
> When I modify slightly the macport generated command it works !!
> For example here I only need to add "--with-fc=/opt/local/bin/openmpif90" to the
> configure.py options of petsc to make it work.
> And at the end I was able to build the package by hand.
> But finally I don't know how to put the build library in the macport filesystem (/opt/local/xxx).
> 
> I guess that the best should be that macport do the job by itself but
> I don't understand how I can tell macport to add this option ...
> 
> Any idea ?

It sounds like something that should be reported in our issue tracker.

Does this issue match what you see?

http://trac.macports.org/ticket/27223

If so, you should add your observations to that ticket.

If not, you should file a new ticket.