Building shared libraries of petsc

[jolivetr]

Hello,

I need to compile petsc with the option --with-shared-libraries=1. I modified the port on my machine, creating a new variant:

variant shared description {build with shared libraries} {

configure.args-delete --with-shared-libraries=0 configure.args-delete --with-pic=fPIC configure.args-append --with-shared-libraries=1

}

I have to delete --with-pic=fPIC, otherwise it does not run. Then, it configures and builds fine, but when macports checks on the created files, it complains, and restarts the whole process (and does it over and over again):

It says:

---> Updating database of binaries: 100.0% ---> Scanning binaries for linking errors: 100.0% ---> Found 3 broken file(s), matching files to ports ---> Found 1 broken port(s), determining rebuild order

I did run

port install --no-rev-upgrade petsc +variant

so that it installs it and stops without checking what's wrong. Compiling goes fine.

I then did run

port -d -y rev-upgrade

to see the problem, and I have this:

DEBUG: Marking /opt/local/lib/petsc/lib/libparmetis.dylib as broken Could not open /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_math_petsc/petsc/work/petsc-3.3-p0/darwin/lib/libmetis.dylib: Error opening or reading file (referenced from /opt/local/lib/petsc/lib/libparmetis.dylib) DEBUG: Marking /opt/local/lib/petsc/lib/libpetsc.dylib as broken Could not open /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_math_petsc/petsc/work/petsc-3.3-p0/darwin/lib/libparmetis.dylib: Error opening or reading file (referenced from /opt/local/lib/petsc/lib/libpetsc.dylib) DEBUG: Marking /opt/local/lib/petsc/lib/libpetsc.dylib as broken

To further investigate the problem, I tried:

otools -L /opt/local/lib/petsc/libpetsc.dylib that says this file does not exists: /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_math_petsc/petsc/work/destroot/opt/local/lib/petsc/lib/libpetsc.dylib

There is no /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_math_petsc/ directory, indeed.

I am kind of stuck there. I am probably doing things wrong, but I guess also there is a linking problem somewhere. Thank you for the help Romain